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SOLDIEE 



THE PEOPLE; 



THE WORLD'S DELIVERER. 



A ROMANCE 



BY ALEXANDER LOOKUP, 

Author of " Our Hero Abroad," " Adventures of an Interesting 
Young Man," Ac. 



NEW-YORK & LONDON : 

KENNEDY, PUBLISHER, 483 BROADWAY. 
1860. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by 

M. KENNEDY, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, 
for the Southern District of New York. 

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SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE ; 

OR, THE 

WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 



BOOK I. 



CHAPTER I. 

Scene. — A park in the city of Washington, within view of 
the Capitol. Enter Ladies of the French, Austrian, Rus- 
sian and other embassies at Washington. Lady Magog 
reading newspaper 

Lady Magog. the startling advertisement that is here ! 

Lady Gog. What? 

Lady Magog. (Reads.) ' On the 4th July, I, Hercules 
Power, will be in Washington, and from the Capitol steps 
will, at 12 o'clock, publish forth the everlasting, rational, na- 
tural, profitable law for the whole world, the Enlightened 
Law, the best law for all classes ; also will set forth a plan 
for an immediate Diamond United States of the Globe; first of 
America and afterwards of all mankind ; also will explain 



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8 /the soldier of the people ; or, 

my intended expedition to Europe to liberate the enslaved 
People's from the power of the contemptuous political 
gamesters ; also I shall introduce the Queen Justitia, Hea- 
ven's prosy, to the Sovereign Citizens, and more than forty 
Sovereign Queens, deputies of the Sovereign People of dif- 
ferent States.' 

Lady Gog. dear, dear, what a perfect thunder clap of 
an advertisement. 

Lady Magog. Don't let it confound you, ladies. We 
shall have capital use for all our ingenuity, I tell you, to 
meet and defeat the Goliath of Enlightened Law. 

[Enter newsboys calling extra. Ladies buy paper 
and read. 
1 General Power left this morning for Washington to in- 
augurate the Diamond Republic' 

Lady Magog. Something immediate we must do ! 
Lady Gog. Truly, no hope for the powers of Europe, nor 
for any other power, if raptured General Power gets any 
headway in America, in inaugurating his Diamond Republic 
of Mankind as he denominates it. 

[Enter Old Time, who, planting his hour glass on the 
ground, leans contemplatively on his scythe. 
Old Time. (Speaks in soliloquy.) Lo, I'm the reaper 
Of all the world heretofore, yet am I Old Time, 
Good for innumerable years to come. 

[The timorous women of fashion for the first time get 
a glimpse of Old Time. 
Lady Magog. Look, a spectre ! 

[Ladies turn white — two of them faint in arms of 
servants. 
Lady Gog. 'Tis Old Time himself, or some one who 
affects his disastrous semblance. 



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Lady Magog. No doubt a fellow sent by plaguy Power 
To sadden us with presage of disaster, 
And fill us up with stagnant weight of thought, 
And melancholy that invites mishap. 

Lady Gog. Beshrew him sinister as a raven. 

Lady Magog. That hops foreboding thwart the traveler's 
path. 

Lady Gog. Beshrew him ! a knave, I warrant him, and 
intending a threat in the attitude now assumed. Doubtless 
some nameless vagrant — come hither to aid Hercules Pow- 
er's millennial inauguration. 

Lady Magog. Get up immediate troupe of furies, and 
thereupon tear Hercules Power. 

Lady Gog. let us about it, for I have great fear of as- 
piring General Power getting a headway, which if he does, 
it is all over with particular great powers throughout the 
world. 

Old Time. Very natural fear, considering you stand like 
thunder clouds toward the Sovereign Masses soon to be rap- 
tured to unity ; soon to vote the right sort of law and gov- 
ernment by universal plaudits to the heaven that clips man- 
kind everlastingly around. 

Lady Magog. So, in order to be prepared to meet and de- 
feat upstart democratic Power, hire we several cankered old 
women, and open, by their means, a broadside of satire, ridi- 
culing and nullifying his popular efforts. 

Lady Gog. Good, get a troop of furies and lead them on 
to the attack of the democrat at the moment of his contem- 
plated millennial inauguration. 

[Old Time never in all his irksome pilgrimage for a 
moment in the same position, appears to the timid 
ladies to make a threatening demonstration with 
his scythe. 



10 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE ; OR, 

Lady Gog. Ho, call my Lord Ambassador Gog ! 

[Exeunt Servants. 

Lady Magog. Ho, summon my Lord Ambassdor Magog 1 

[Exeunt more Lackeys. 

[Immediately rush upon the scene of action Lord 

Gog and Lord Magog, severally armed with a club, 

followed by Lackeys who surround Old Time and 

menace him. 

Lord Gog. What are you doing here, you vile old tallow- 
face ? 

Old Time. I am thinking of God's patience. 

Lord Gog. How, ye rascal ? His patience about what ? 

Old Time. Waiting the matter of six thousand years to 
see this world, plagued with Tyrants and their inventions, 
put right and straight; giving capital opportunity to in- 
numerable statesmen, and at the end having to interfere 
Himself in the all important matter of social rectification. 

Lord Gog. Interfere, you scoundrel ! what d'ye mean by 
that? 

Old Time. Commander General Power, Enlightenment's 
chief apostle, as I understand, is arrived ! 

Lord Magog. Villain, are ye come hither to play the evil 
prophet, and hang like an ominous comet in unclouded sky, 
to craftily conjure up a popular commotion. Who sent ye 
hither, ye knave ? 

Old Time. No one ! 

Magog. Ye lie, fellow ! 

Lord Gog. Ye're confederate with Power. 

Magog. Allied to notorious republican upstart, 
Power, so popular now with the people. 

Old Time. No, I am Power's herald and forerunner, 

Magog. Enlightenment's self-boasted apostle, whom tho 
people dub their champion ? 



THK WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 11 

Old Time. Praised be God ! The people at length united 
on enlightened champion ? Praised be God ! Then the 
millennium's nigh ! praised be God ! 
Magog. There, take that, ye old caitiff ! 

[Hits him with club. 
Gog. Take that for more improvement of your manners. 

[Hits him, too, with club. 
Old. Time. Help an old man I Help, some one in mercy, 
help 1 

Enter Donald. 
Donald. Drop your coward work ; I say, drop your 
coward work ! What are ye about ? Drop belaboring an 
old man, ye unnatural brutes 1 

[Donald hits the Ambassadors on the back. They 
turn on Donald, while the Lackeys pummel the old 
man. 
Old Time. Help 1 help 1 help ! 
Donald. Ay, in a jiffy ! 

[Blows a whistle. Thereupon enter young men of 
the Army of the Sun. 
Magog. Who are ye, so saucy ? 
1st Young Man. We serve rapturous master. 
2d Young Man. Commander General Power. 
Magog. More of the notorious democratic upstart's hire- 
lings, eh ? begone ! caitiffs, begone ! 

1st Young Man. Not without more physical reason ! 

[Upon that, the young men, severally donning a helmet 
and plume of gold, which adds considerably to their 
stature, Gog and Magog and the Lackeys take 
precipitately to their heels, followed by the Ladies 
of the Embassies, screaming and shrieking in 
affected fear for their lives. 



12 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OB, 

Donald. Come on I 

1st Young Man. We'll fight you individually any way 
you choose it. [Exeunt. 



CHAPTER II. 

Scene. — A street in Washington city. 

Enter Magnus Sham and company, political chessmen and 
their numerous friends, some habited as drovers with great 
top coats and devilish snaky whips ; others as butchers, 
with blue gowns and white aprons spotted over with blood ; 
all large burly men, Magnus himself presenting the respect- 
able proportion of a sugar hogshead. 

Magnus Sham. How to stop migbty General Power is 
the urgent question. 

Sham. Why, if he is as they give out, all powerful, 
impossible to stop him. 

Magnus Sham. Ah, Enlightenment, that's the savior 
of the people, will be our death stroke. 

Sham. The sovereigns raptured up to diamond unity, 
farewell we political speculators ; farewell coercive drovers 
and butchers of the State. 

[Enter Drovers cracking whips and driving a weary 
drooping herd of poor creatures, clad in sheep skins., 

Magnus Sham. Drive them in the shambles, here ! 

[Magnus points out the place of sacrifice to the 
political and other victims. Immediately all the 
herd make a great outcry. 



THE WORLD'8 CAPTAIN. 13 

Herd. Magnus, Magnus, we voted for you, but vote for 
you no more if you forsake us in now urgent strait. 

[Great outcry of the Herd continued. 
Magnus Sham. my friends, there's my hand ! To help 
yon out of difficulty I'm never slow. 

Drovers. Fy, Magnus, to give so many free passes out of 
their trouble to our legitimate cattle. Fy, Magnus ! 

Magnus Sham. The rest I don't know ; drive them in 
and butcher them without pity. 

[Drovers drive the rest into the political shambles. 
Butchers whetting their knives, follow the drovers 
inside. Anon, runs forth Poor Bankrupt very much 
frightened. 
Poor Bankrupt. It's real butchering they're after. 
Magnus Sham. What, bold knave, broken away from the 
ring bolt? 

Poor Bankrupt. I see no reason in having my throat cut. 
Magnus Sham. Rebel ! traitor ! mutineer ! lawless villain ! 
Poor Bankrupt. Rebel ! traitor ! lawless villain ! for ob- 
jecting to having my throat cut, or the same thing, natural 
hereditary sovereign rights trampled by Sham and Company. 
Truly, you're a reasonable man ! 

Magnus Sham. Thou art my prisoner I 
Poor Bankrupt. When you catch me. 

[Exit Bankrupt, running. 
Magnus Sham. Pursue ! pursue ! 
O'er take and bring him back and slaughter him. 

[Exeunt Drovers and Butchers in determined hurry 
followed by Magnus Sham and Company, in a 
fuming excitement. 



14 TUB SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OB, 



BOOK II. 



CHAPTER I. 

Scene. — The steps of the capitol at Washington. 

Enter Lords Gog and Magog, and Ladies Gog and Magog 
and other ladies, evidently excited and worried, followed 
hy Lackeys and others. 

Lord Magog. There's money 1 Go, and with liberal 
gratuities bring shoulder-hitters and rowdies to assemble at 
the proper moment, and spoil democratic upstart Power's 
contemplated millennial inauguration. 

Lackeys. Ay, my lord. [Exeunt Lackeys. 

Lady Magog. Those who came to the assistance of the 
old villain assailing us in the park, were hirelings of the 
popular upstart Power, part of his rapturous voluntary force, 
as he calls them, now arrived to participate in the millennial 
celebration. 

Lady Gog. Thank heaven, or otherwise the consequences 
were direful, they're no more than a force of sanguine asses, 
raptured blockheads, kicking up heels for their own especial, 
silly amusement; nobody else. 

Lady Magog. Come away and get haggard creatures to 
open battery of venomed darts on democratic upstait Power. 

Lord Magog. Come, Lord Gog, let us disguise and put 
ourselves at the head of the shoulder-hitters. 

[Exeunt Lords and Ladies. 
Enter Citizens. 

1st Cit. the amazing news ! 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 15 

2d Cit. What, sir ? what ? 

1st Cit. General Power has announced in the newspapers 
the forthcoming inauguration of Enlightened Diamond Re- 
public. 

3d Cit. And what is more wonder — 

1st Cit. The appearance of Justitia, the Queen of Hea- 
ven's Proxy, Celestial Justice herself, to publish from the 
capitol steps her message to the united Sovereign Citizens. 

3d Cit. How now, General Power and his staff ! 

[Enter General Power and his staff, namely General 
Eagle, General Trump, and other officers in full 
uniform, greeting Honorable Senators and Repre- 
sentatives, entering from the other side. Citizens 
gather round and attentively listen. 

Gen. P. Honorable representatives of congress, as do all 
legislators, you exist in consequence of weakness and dis- 
traction of the sovereign people. No other reason. 

1st Senator. No doubt, Mr. Power ! no doubt ! 

Gen. P. It is my rapturous part, as the advocate of En- 
lightenment and Enlightened law, to show how to perfectly 
unite the Sovereign People, not of our unrivalled country 
only, but of all the haggard world beyond. 

1st Senator. Ha ! ha ! ha ! you're an extraordinary man. 

Id Senator. Anxious of being esteemed a span exceeding 
Hercules ! Ha ! ha 1 ha ! 

Gen. P. Who are the authors of the sovereign citizens' 
weakness and distraction ? Perhaps you do not know it, 
gentlemen. It behooves then I do enlighten you at once. 

Senators. ho ! ho ! ho ! 

Gen. P. First the crafty, hypocritical getters up of the 
superstition of the cross, which is the religion of Jesus' cruci- 
fiers, the Pharisees, never Jesus' own, who correctly promul- 
gated love and light, as they are in God for the means of 



16 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE; OR, 

salvation, that by its reptile discrepancies, and by its creed of 
tyrannous bigotry, weakens and distracts, so proving itself 
incapable to fulfill the demands of enlightened future. 

1st Senator. Indeed ! Ha ! ha ! ha ! That's new ! 

Gen. P. I announce Enlightenment according to heaven, 
God's surrounding standard, to be the true son of God, the 
perfect, rapturous Redeemer, designed by the Almighty 
Father, to magnetically elevate, rapture and unite the Sover- 
eign People, like sunshine everlasting, and, in doing so, I 
blast the unworthy serpent of superstition, splitting the citi- 
zens into distracted sects and parties, giving them up a prey 
to every cajoling tyrant, from Emperor down to pot-house 
politician. 

1st Senator. Why, you don't mean to reflect on us, do 
you? 

Gen. P. 0, by no means, gentlemen, only on the supersti- 
tion, giving the people to worship bigotry and misery in lieu 
of Enlightenment, of all the popular mind, by every rational 
means, from earliest years in Rational Universities, otherwise 
God of Nature's universal Catholic churches, schools and 
colleges combined of the whole people. Enlightenment, 
imbuing all like ineffable God, soon changes the world into 
one harmonious, rapturous, brotherly unit like the glorious 
onward and omnipotent planet itself. 

1st Senator. But, how, if your Enlightenment modify, or 
upset the present political state ? 

Gen. Power. State ! none in the world, but God and the 
universal, enlightened, united sovereign citizens. State 1 
Where is state of any legitimacy but that which inaugurates 
Heaven's kingdom, which every one has been praying for 
since he was a child ? State ! The Sovereign People, made 
one hy Enlightenment, realize the greatest state imaginable, 
resplendent heaven for all the enlightened future of the 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 17 

planet ; happiness, opulence, and unity for all the magneti- 
cally united millions of sovereign citizens who tread the rap- 
tured ship, whereof God Omnipotent is Captain. 

1st Senator. Sir, you speak with a thundering deal of 
command. 

Gen. Power. Enlightenment commands. Nothing save 
enlightenment has legitimate right to command in the world, 
which owes itself to God wholly enlightened. Enlighten- 
ment is God's redeemer for all mankind. Enlightenment, 
or imhuing with God's mind and principles according to His 
surrounding standard of Heaven, is the new Messiah, to re- 
claim hy Enlightened Law and Government, the sovereign 
people out of Egypt, and out of the withering power of 
deadly bigots and despots. No more meteor like Napoleons, 
lurid fire-balls, betraying a generation to its ruin ; but rap- 
turous Herculeses of perfection achieved through light alone, 
developing in heavenly shape, beauty, truth and grace. To 
all the self-interested and nefarious teachers of superstition, 
the seconds of tyrants, who have sold the world to its mas- 
ters, I say, I am armed with God's perfect weapon of light, 
to frighten the souls of the enemies of mankind ; to discover 
all hypocrites and pretenders to government ; to elevate the 
world and complete it through enlightenment, according to 
God's open Scriptures and rapturous surrounding standard of 
heaven. 

1st Senator. Why, now, sir, what has started you like a 
meteor upon so extraordinary erratic mission ? 

Gen. Power. It is tyrannous oppression that hath made 
me so enlightened warlike. Oppression from the govern- 
ment's agents ; oppression from your exorbitant courts, and 
their mercenary officers. I am become the archangel, 
scourge of dragon governments, the resplendent terror of all 
the icy powers, to moderate them down, and to change hag- 



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gard humanity, like light upon the darkened waters, into the 
serene mirror of heaven itself. 

Zd Senator. What is your name ? 

Gen. Power. Hercules Power ! 

3c? Senator. Indeed, sir ! Sometimes we hear of you as 
General Power, though you are not on our army list. 

Hercules Power. Nevertheless, I am about to take com- 
mand of a mighty army ; a voluntary army of the all-power- 
ful, Enlightened, United People, that will briefly estop end- 
less rent and taxation ; dry up exorbitant government 
whether federal or municipal ; and re-model the country rap- 
turous and natural, right and straight; putting the ship 
round for the New Universal Supernal California at every 
sovereign man's door, immediately ravished by Enlightened 
Law. 

1st Senator. Ha, we have read accounts something like 
this in the newspapers. 

Hercules Power. Behold the future capitol of the world ! 

1st Congressman. Where ? 

Hercules Power. There, gentlemen ! (pointing to the sky,) 
The everlasting heaven ! 

1st Congressman. Ha 1 

Hercules Power. Ay, gentlemen, a capitol not to oppress 
the earth, but perpetually rapture it. 

1st Congressman. Ha, indeed ! 

Hercules Power. Ay, gentlemen, and there reigns eternally 
at that capitol a queen who is about to translate herself 
hither, yea, take up her residence upon every foot of the 
habitable globe. 

2d Congressman. Indeed, sir ! her name ? 

Hercules Power. Justice, handmaid of God 1 

2c? Congressman. Ha, ha, ha ! 

Hercules Power. Ay, 'tis true. 



19 THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 

1st Congressman. 0, sir, that is quite supererogatory labor ! 
we have already established Justice sufficiently in the courts. 

Hercules Power. But she is gratuitous and universal 
Justice without courts, save one Enlightened self-supporting 
Court of the county, otherwise God's court for social perfection, 
for rapturous and satisfactory Justice at the enlightened start. 
She is Justice without horrid and exorbitant tax grinding 
courts ; oppressive creatures borrowed of Europe's tyrants. She 
is Justice in accordance with Nature. She is Justice as ordain- 
ed by Supreme God Almighty 

1st Congressman. We'll not have her 1 

2d Congressman. "We don't want to see her ! 

Hercules Power. But the enlightened People may, gentle- 
men. 

1st Senator. We shall not admit her to the Senate. 

1st Congressman. Nor to the house of Representatives. 

Hercules Power. Yet she fills heaven, Justice doth ; and 
I doubt not, will be welcomed on earth, and especially in free 
enlightened America. 

1st Congressman. We'll not have her, as we've said 
already. 

Hercules Power. That, gentlemen, is for the Enlightened 
Sovereign Citizens to say, not for you, nor for I. At all events, 
it can do nobody any harm to look on diamond perfection in 
Justitia, representing the Queen of Heaven, and therefore I 
shall prepare to present her to you at the earliest opportunity. 

[Exeunt Senators and Representatives. 

[Enter a deputation of Mechanics, introduced by 
Hercules Power's friend, General Diamond. 
Gen. Power. Welcome, gentlemen ! 
1st Mechanic. We must, needs be by Enlightenment's 
Apostle. 



20 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 

2d Mechanic. Yet, 0, Commander Power, we fear to 
meddle with what we don't understand 

Gen. Power. Seek Enlightenment, that will give you un- 
derstanding enough. 

Gen. Diamond. "With Enlightenment, 

The world becomes an immediate heavenly unit ; 
Splendid, harmonious like an entire diamond, 
And raptured onward as the omnipotent planet. 

Gen. Power. You must know that a great part of the 
machinery of government, the world over, is a counterfeit 
heaven, elevated by bigots and despots over the Sovereign 
People to eclipse the perfect, true, superlative Heaven on 
Earth of the ineffable, universal G-od, the Author of our 
being. 

1st Mechanic. Read us a few paragraphs from the Enlight- 
ened Bible, that Light and Rapture your pupils are writing 
for the People's grand magnetic union. 

[G-eneral Power withdraws a book from his pocket, 
and reads. 

Gen. Power. The soil is God's property, a part of the 
rapturous heavens. It cannot be taxed. How it came to 
be taxed at first was all by Caesars and Saints in collusion. 

Mechanics. Hurrah, Light I Hurrah, Rapture ! Hurrah 
Enlightenment ! Hurrah, General Power, or enlightened 
popular strength and freedom, the capital result of Enlight- 
enment ! 

Gen. Power. Ay, gentlemen, Enlightenment were no bet- 
ter than the old superstition, except for the many diamond 
gifts it brings. 

1st Mechanic. What, 0, General Power ? 

2d Mechanic. Altho' we can't imagine, 

Yet thy exceeding rapturous eye and mien, 
Like open sky, leads us to hope fair day. 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 21 

Gen. Power. No better than the haggard, ragged, worn 
out superstition, if it did not bring 

1st Mechanic. What ? 

Gen. Power. Everything; 

Unity, happiness, opulence, content, 
Prosperity to everybody without end ; 
Enlightened royalty to all mankind, 
A diamond world accomplished by enlightenment. 

1st Mechanic. No doubt, 0, General Power ! 
Enlightenment is the modern, rational, true and perfect Re- 
deemer ! 

2d Mechanic. The immeasurable mountain prospect opened 
Doth buoy us up with rapture off our feet — 
Proceed, 0, General Power ! 

[Enter a poor Bankrupt.] 

Bankrupt. I am unfortunate, but, I suppose, I must bear 
my cross like other unlucky speculators. 

Com. Power. How did this cross happen to you ? 

Bankrupt. By too great confidence in paper. 

Com. Power. 0, you leant on a paper redeemer ? 

Bankrupt. Ay, sir! 

Com. Power. Paper redeemer ! Pretty thing to keep a 
man in hope. Pretty faith is paper redeemer to offer en- 
lightened public ! 

Bankrupt. I'm in a heap of trouble. God, deliver me ! 

[Runs and returns. 

Com. Power. God would, sir, but cannot, because, being 
out of your paper redeemer, you have accepted to bear a 
cross, in lieu of an enlightened heart. 

Bankrupt. Sir, you do startle me by your original in- 
dependent manner of thinking. 

Com. Power. Attend to me ! I am Hercules Power, who 



22 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 

hath undertook an enlightened war upon all crosses. See 
God's standard, Enlightenment, that put's all the world right 
and straight at the start, in natural, and rapturous mode. 
Will you join it ? 

Bankrupt. Ay, aught that will put me up again in hope. 
Com. Power. Enlightenment will do it ! Your cross and 
all crosses, however they are got, are quite needless, and by 
enlightenment can be prevented. Come with me ! 

[Enter Magnus Sham and Company, and Drovers 

and Butchers, the former flourishing whips, the 

latter brandishing knives. They all rush on Poor 

Bankrupt. 

Magnus Sham. Seize him ! Traitor ! rebel ! mutineer 

Donald. Off notorious tyrants and cutthroat encumbrances ! 

[Donald shakes them off Poor Bankrupt. 

Gen. Power. Unhand him ! Every man Sovereign by 
Enlightenment ! 

[General Power draws his sword ; young soldiers of 
the Army of the Sun rush between Avith drawn 
swords. Magnus' friends drop their weapons in 
despair. 

SONG. 

Bravo, General Power ! 
Rapturing us by Enlightenment 

To heaven full of splendor, 
And diamond unity and content. 
Bravo, General Power ! 
Magnus Sham. O ! 

[Magnus succumbs back in the arms of his friends. 

Drover. What's the matter with Mr. Magnus ? 
Magnus Sham. Friends, 



the world's captain. 23 

I'm suddenly indisposed, so carry me 
Home to my possible death-bed. 

[Exeunt Magnus, &c 
[Enter quietly and unobserved, Old Time with scythe 
and hour-glass. He seats himself down on the 
steps of the Capitol, within the august shadow of 
the grand Corinthian columns. The same moment 
all eyes are riveted upon the extraordinary old hero. 

1st Mechanic. Who's that ? 

2d Mechanic. I think Old Time, 
Or individual of his wizard semblance. 

Old Time. (Soliloquizing.) He comes of a capital stock, 
does Hercules Power, the rational friend of the people, among 
whom rank as pre-eminent, Paine and Franklin, who, persecu- 
ted and despairing for existence under despots, migrated to 
America. He has in this enlightened age of progress, under 
favor of Enlightened Public Opinion, lately gained such 
addition, that they begin to entitle him, Commander General 
Power. 

Hercules Poiver. To every one of you, gentlemen, Enlight- 
enment brings royal portion ; all privileges that hedge a king 
against contiguity of vulgar misfortune ; every one endowed 
with a part of the raptured ship; and no more heartless 
sheriff to sacrifice you; one of the universal, all-powerful, 
sovereign brotherhood, who laugh to scorn the now ghostly 
Caesars waning like moon before the morn's resplendent 
dawn. 

Gen. Diamond. 0. universal Enlightened Sovereign 
People, as oft as any needless trouble happens to you, think 
on Commander General Power ; but, above all, think on one 
another, and bear a hand to powerfully enforce one another 
in your enlightened war upon crosses and on all withering 



24 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OK, 

superstition, and on all bigots and despots, whether they defy 
you as in Europe, or cajole you as in the United States. 

Mechanics. Long live General Diamond I - Bravo, En- 
lightened Law and Government, akin to that of Nature's 
Author ! Bravo, the complete Diamond Republic ! Long 
live General Power ! 

[No sooner Old Time hears vociferated the name of 
General Power by the raptured citizens, than leap- 
ing to his feet, and throwing away his scythe, and 
knocking over his hour-glass, he rushes up to the 
General, and looking him a moment in the face, 
then clasps him passionately. 
Old Time. I have found him, I have found him, heaven 
be thanked ! found him, for whom I've pined an exceeding 
time. [Embraces him. 

Gen. Power. How now, my old chap ? Found whom ? 
Old Time. The diamond 

Hero of Enlightenment 1 
Mechanics. Who ? 

Old Time. A soldier, General Power, 

Before all hitherto ; the people's brother 1 
No proud upstart oppressor 1 

Mechanics. Bravo, General Power ! 
Bravo, Old Time, enlightened Power's sire ! 

[Old Time again embraces the General. 
Old Time. I have found him I I have found him ! Hea- 
ven be thanked ! Found him more opulent than mines of 
Golconda, Enlightenment's apostle who'll change the world 
like one resplendent diamond. 
Mechanics. Bravo, Old Time ! 

Old Time. Old ? Gentlemen, I'm young Time now. I 
take a new start from this rapturous epoch. 



the world's captain. 25 

SONG. 

By the Kapturous Mechanics, and young men of the Army 

of the Sun. 

Bravo, old chap ! 
No more ahead of the world, 
Content to play the child ; 
And dally, laugh, and chat ; 

Laugh and chat. 
And dally, laugh, and chat, 
Like a good old chap ; 
Like a good, good, good 
Old chap. 

[They slap the ancient gentleman on the back, and 
surround and otherwise caress him. He seems 
very much pleased with their attentions. 

Old Time. Hurrah, Rapturous General Power is the 
enlightened soldier the world needs. 

Gen. Power. Truce to your flattery, Father Time ! 

1st Mechanic. Time's flattery's always merited, General. 

Old Time. Faith, thou'rt my hearty. To embrace thee 
something involuntarily draws me, 
) thou magnet, General Power 1 

[Old Time again clasps the General. 

Gen. Power. Much obliged to you for this affectionate 
hug, old Mr. Time. If you bear light, there's no other can 
plant a wrinkle. 

Mechanics. Bravo, Old Time ! 

Bravo, young giant Power, Old Time's recruit ! 

[Young men of the army of the Sun, pick up Old 
Time's scythe, and offer to fix it again upon his 
shoulder. 



26 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE; OR, 

Mechanics. Old Time, here is your scythe, you had 
forgot. 

Old Time. I'll have none of it, I'm young Time. Now, 
bring me blossoms ! bring me wine ! bring me genial women- 
kind ! I'll straight marry ; settle me down, and rear an all- 
powerful family of children. 

[General Power takes Old Time's arm to escort him. 
Young men of the army of the Sun, and the Rap- 
turous Mechanics follow suit. 

Gen. Power. Come, Father Time ! 

Choose you my poor house for your residence. 

Old Time. But I have a large family, soon forthcoming, 
General ! 

Gen. Power. I have thought of that, Father Time. Hard 
by, is a Rapturous University where all the neighborhood's 
taught in the capital creed of Nature's God, Author of the 
universal heavens. 

Young Men. What shall we do with your scythe, then, 
Mr. Time ? 

Old Time. Hang it ! I'll none of it. 

Gen. Power. Hang up Time's scythe 

With venerable memorials on the wall 
For marvel of the future generations. 

Old Time. Ay, hang it up ! anything, so you put it out 
of sight ! Don't any more speak of scythe in the enlight- 
ened rapturous time, the forthcoming millennium. 

[Young men play and sport with Time's scythe. 

Old Time. Guide me to rapturous University. I'm im- 
patient to see what provision is made for education of the 
future, forthcoming innumerable family. Guide me to Rap« 
turous University, General. 

1st Young Man. Come, Father Time ! 



the wokld's captain. 27 

Join arm in arm young men of the Army of the Sun 
and rapturous Mechanics singing. 

SONG. 

By young men of the Army of the Sun and Raptured 
Mechanics. 
Come away and joyfully take life, 
Hitherto haggard Time has dropt his scythe ; 
Join our raptured army of Enlightened youth, 
Come away and let us joyfully live ; 
Let us joyful, joyful live. 
[Exeunt young men and raptured mechanics singing. 
Enter Citizens. 
1st Citizen. What's the news ? why are you all on high 
waves of excitation ? 

2d Citizen. 0, you must know old Time is come amongst 
us! 

1st Citizen. What, Old Time ? 
2d Citizen. Ay ! 

1st Citizen. No thanks to him, a lukewarm customer whom 
we can neither call enemy nor friend. 

2d Citizen. But he hath put away his scythe, Old Time 
hath. 0, he hath grown to he a youth, Old Time hath, 
since the haggard laws are to be got rid of. 

1st Citizen. Old Time has veritably come amongst us 
then? 

2d Citizen. Rather, to drop figures ; humanity has now 
fallen upon its millennium, a long aummer, ripening into a 
mellow autumn. [Exeunt. 



28 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OS, 



CHAPTER II. 

A public park and promenade. General Hercules Power 
with his friends descending the front steps of his house. 
Enter Lady Gog and Lady Magog, and other ladies of the 
embassies. 

Lady Magog. There is General Power and his staff. At 
him! 

Lady Gog. Disgrace him before his officers, call him in- 
famous names. 

1st Hag. Ay, we'll call names, and make him blush up to 
his eyes. 

Lady Magog. At him ! Take him systematically to pieces 
like an anatomical subject. Disgrace him before his officers. 
Don't leave him a stitch of character wherewith to aspire to 
any respectability again. 

[The Hags severally stick out their fingers at General 
Power. 

All the Hags. ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho 1 

1st Hag. See at the gnat straining to be an elephant ! 

2d Hag. See at the would-be lion ! 

All the Hags. ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho 1 

Gen. Eagle. See, Scandal with her caustic tongue, 
And finger of disdain. 

Gen. Power. Ho, Donald ! 

Enter Donald. 

Donald. Ay, sir, here ! 

Gen. Power. If you know any likely young men for Hy- 
men's capital knot, bring them hither right away, Donald. 

Donald. Ay, ay, General. [Exit Donald. 



the world's captain. 29 

1st Hag. ho, ho, ho ! 

Lady Magog. Ha, here's aa unexpected counter move- 
ment, or rebuff. 

Gen. Power. Ladies, may it please you, the millennium's 
about arrived, and something inspires me to attempt the rap- 
turous inauguration. 

Ladies. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ! 

Lady Magog. Hang thy inspiration, going to confound 
Europe, all the powers together. 

Gen. Power. Donald, ho ! If you know any likely young 
men for Hymen's capital knot, bring them hither right away, 
Donald. 

Re-enter Donald. 

Donald. Ay, ay ! I've got the likely young men, General, 
but they are bashful and shy to appear before so many ladies. 
Come in, I say, come in. 

Gen. Power. 0, beautiful millennium, great time for 
marriages I 

[Waves them, and then exits to bring them in. 

1st Hag. Millennium, General, 0, that were triumph com- 
plete as sunshine over inveterate bigot and despot night of 
earth. 

2d Hag. Millennium ! 0, the charm that's in some names 1 
The lovely thought like sunshine in the sky, 
Plants heavenly beauty on the haggard cheek. 
Millennium ! 

3d Hag. Ay, neither miserable bachelors nor old maids in 
the millennium. 

Lady Magog. Furies, why don't you tear him in pieces 
before his staff? 

[Re-enter Donald with likely young men, who stagger, 
frightened at the furies, and run out again, and 
Donald after them. 



30 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 

Gen. Power. Ho, Donald ! Couldn't you find husbands 
respectively for the ladies here ? 

Lady Magog. Why don't you plant your nails in hia 
face, termagants ? 

[Lady Magog edges on the hags with her elbows 
and with furious phrases. 

Lady Gog. As you have been paid to do, hussies ! 

Gen. Power. Ho, Donald ! Couldn't you find husbands 
respectively for the ladies here ? 

[Re-enter Donald with likely young men. 

Donald. Ay, could I, if you'd do the right thing, and 
lend them the helping hand. 

Gen. Power. I shall dower them and rapture them toward 
marriage, if they're ready for so enlightened revolution of 
their fortune. 

1st Hag. Ay, are we ? 

[Lady Gog and Magog shriek and tear their hair. 

2d Hag. Though doubtful of ever seeing it. 

Donald. You rabid creatures, X have looked you up hus- 
bands. Wed, and beget buds of humanity, future citizens 
of enlightened Republic, in lieu of devouring unfortunate 
world, laid out on universal cross, for the especial—— 

Gen. Power. Stop, Donald 1 

Donald. Praise and exaltation of holy bigots or Pharisees 
and despots in legislature — r— 

Gen. Power. Donald, you've said enough ! 

Donald. And executive halls. 

Gen. Power. Well, ladies, there's a lot for you severally. 

1st Hag. 0, where, General Power ? 

Gen. Poiver. Why, in the neighborhood, in near prox- 
imity. 

[Hags approach and ogle the young men. Young 
men run back affrighted. 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 31 

Gen. Power. I am about to divide the world in lots, to 
suit the Sovereign People, according to God, of Nature's 
highest type of law, the Enlightened Law. 

Lady Magog. Europe's lost to the Powers ! 

Lady Gog. Lost to us 1 Lost to us, is Europe ! 

[They shriek, tear their hair, and show disordered 
mind and action. 

Gen. Power. Your ages ? 

1st Hag. A woman never tells her real age ! Heaven 
.bless you, never ! 

Gen. Power. I'm going to donate a lot, to severally com- 
plete ye withal. 

Donald. A select lot, and a choice husband to the boot ! 

2d Hag. 0, that's rapture upon rapture ! Rapture too 
exceeding ! 

Gen. Power. So shall I dower and marry you. 

Hags. What? 

1st Hag. O rapturous General Power ! 

2d Hag. How will he do it ? 

Gen. Power. Your dower shall be that. 

[Gives them title deeds to free homes. 

[Exeunt ladies of the Embassies in wild dismay. 
Exeunt on the opposite side, Hercules Power and 
his friends, followed by Donald and Hags arm in 
arm with young men, making demonstrations of 
extreme joy. 



32 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE J OB, 



CHAPTER III. 

Scene. — The Porcli of the Capitol, the heathen, Pharisaic 
counterfeit of God's Heaven, universal by Enlightened 
Law. Enter Hercules Power, and Congressmen. 

[Cry of murder heard inside of the Capitol. Senators and 
Representatives rush in and leave General Power stand- 
ing alone. Presently a bleeding man is brought out, sup- 
ported in the arms of the excited Senators and Represen- 
tatives, and borne off to a carriage. 

1st Senator. What's the remedy for these things ? 

2d Senator. Will your Enlightenment reach so almighty 
deep as to heal the distraction of fanatic disunionists, threat- 
ening to rend the country, or rather the citizens, apart ? 

Hercules Power. Enlightenment is everybody let alone 
everybody else. This wouldn't have happened under univer- 
sal Enlightened Law, perfectly identifying and rapturing all 
the citizens, to complete beautiful unity. 

Is* Senator. But the bone of contention is the niggers. 

Gen. Power. Their redemption cannot come by an intes- 
tine war, only by Enlightenment, universal, profitable, and 
catholic, showing the true way out of all difficulties, and 
doing the best, possible, for every body in present and 
future. 

[Exeunt General Hercules Power, and Honorable 
Senators and Representatives. 

[Enter another batch of Congressmen.] 

2d Congressman. Our predecessors have lobbied away the 
public lands. 



the world's captain. 33 

3c? Congressman. No resource but the treasury now. 

1st Congressman. See how much we can put upon the 
fools that sent us here to legislate for them. 

2d Congressman. What is conceived in folly, ends in in- 
famy — but never mind. 

36? Congressman. Ay, never mind. If the people will 
stand donation of public lands to lobby favorites, they'll stand 
anything. 

ith Congressman. If you vote for the five million lobby 
scheme, you know, and you know. 

1st Congressman. Ay, I'll vote. 

2d Congressman. And so will I. 

Bd Congressman. And I, too. 

<±th Congressman. So will we all. 

bth Congressman. Then into the Hall, gentlemen ! 

[Exeunt Congressmen. 
[Enter Old Time, and young men of the army of the Sun.] 

1st Young man. Old Time, elevate your capital scythe. 
Old Time. Here's work enough ! work enough ! 
2d Young man. Pyramids of obstruction to remove. 
1st Young man. 0, Arches, Pyramids, and Towers of 
Babel, 
Built up in opposition to the People, 
Soon enlightened and elevated like heaven, 
In rapturous, perfect sovereign unity 
By Enlightened Law. 

[Old Time flourishing his scythe, presents its trench- 
ant edge towards the stately but overshadowing 
pile of the capitol. 

Re-enter Congressmen. 
1st Congressman. We have voted it, and it is passed, the 
five million appropriation. 



34 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE ; OK, 

1st Lobbyman. Hurrah, the lobby forever ! 

3d Congressman. What's that you're doing ? 

Old Time. Prefiguring the end of inhuman sham, 
Copied of Rome's corrupted'st example ! 

1st Lobbyman. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ! We'll be discovered to 
the people. 

Old Time. I announce the end ! I announce the future end 
Of capitols and of shops that do pretend 
To conjure laws, when laws are already made, 
The laws of vital heavenly embodying type, 
The Enlightened Law for the world's highest good ; 
Immeasurably rapturing business and trade ; 
Elevating all the world to heaven complete. 

1st Congressman. But, Old Mr. Time, what shall the people 
do for a national capitol in the future ? 

Old Time. There's an infinite better and more everlasting 
Natioual Capitol, even in view of the Sovereign People. 

1st Congressman. What ? 

Old Time. Heaven ! 

1st Congressman. That's all abstraction ! 

Old Time. No, not only yonder amid the stars of ether, but 
here, by operation of Enlightened Law, upon every foot of the 
raptured earth, is heaven perpetually about them, as soon as 
the people know it, and vote it with acclamations, but van- 
ishes the moment they regard other halls and capitols. 

1st Young man. Ay, I dare say, that's all the difficulty in 
realizing it. 

1st Congressman. But where's a constitution, the bond to 
maintain the Union in future ? 

Old Time. The greatest constitution of all, Heaven, a vital 
impregnable embodied constitution, not an external inco- 
herent rope of sand, is yours and all the earth's in the rap- 
turous future. 



the world's captain. 35 

1st Young man. But how is Heaven to be achieved ? 

Old Time. By Enlightened Law, elevating all the people 
to become their own landlords. By general Enlightenment 
of the People, too, in universal Rapturous Universities, or 
Church, school and college combined, of nature's ineffable 
Author, Omnipotent God, ocean of vital creative rays, an ah 
pervading ethereal or spiritual Glory and Perfection. 



BOOK III. 



CHAPTER I. 

Enter citizens, meeting citizens. 

1st Citizen. What's the news ? 

2d Citizen. Rapturous I 

3d Citizen. What ? 

ith Citizen. The Queen of Heaven, and more than forty 
other sovereign Queens, with their several trains, are arrived 
in Washington. 

[Enter citizens meeting.] 

btk Citizen. Upon the great event, Congress adjourned. 

Uh Citizen. General Power has announced the millennial 
celebration for to-morrow ; and all the city's in ecstacies, not 
excepting the Plug-uglies and Dead-rabbits, so reprobate 
and unsusceptible of rapture, and the better expressions of 
man's nature. 

[Enter more citizens.] 



36 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

1st Citizen. "What's the news ? 

2d Citizen. Most glorious ! since the Queen of Heaven's 
arrival the Sovereign Citizens can do nothing but exchange 
congratulations. 

3d Citizen. All the Great Powers already do 

Look rueful, like a tree shook of its leaves ; 
Lean like a crazy fabric toward their fall 
And final irrecoverable overthrow, 
Or mergence with the citizens in business. 

2d Citizen. No rotary storm nor whirl-wind 

E'er wrought so immediate, almighty change 
In the world as Enlightenment, magnetizing it 
To unity and perfection all complete. 
Offering a glorious view of liberty 
Raptures the sovereign citizens away. 

[Re-enter more citizens.] 
1st Citizen. Hurrah, arrived is Heaven's Queen ; 
Justitia, top of admiration ! 

2d Citizen. We acknowledge no Queen but Heaven ; no 
King but Enlightenment that raptures all the people, as 
mutual united sovereigns and brothers in Diamond Re- 
public ! 

[Enter General Hercules Power and his staff on 
horseback, severally clad in full uniform of officers 
of the Grand Army of the Sun, otherwise, the Le- 
gion of Enlightenment. Enter in a carriage drawn 
by milk-white horses, Justitia, representing the 
Queen of Heaven, attended in other carriages by a 
train of over forty queens, deputies from as many 
States and Territories. 
1st Citizen. Behold, glory of all, the Queen of Heaven 
And diamond pattern of the hitherto mean 
Haggard, poor-hearted earth. 



the world's captain. 37 

2d Citizen. Hail, Heaven's effulgent Queen 
World's perfect, glorious regulator at the start, 
Eapturiiig it all by enlightenment 
To immediate sovereign unity and content. 

3d Citizen. Is that Justitia, Heaven's perfect Queen, 0, 
General Power ? 

Hercules Power. Her munificent representative, citizens, 
who will reconcile America entirely to herself, and rapture 
all the haggard world together, at the same time ; a queen 
to join rich and poor in a perpetual enlightened league of 
unity. 

[Exeunt General Hercules Power and his Staff, and 
Queen Justitia and her train of more than forty 
queens. 

[Enter Mr. Magnus Sham and Company ; the chief of 
the firm considerably curtailed of his former glori- 
ous proportions ; his head tied up in a handker- 
chief, having the pallid and stricken aspect of a 
very sick man indeed ; followed by a drooping 
string of friends and dependents like the melan- 
choly tail of an ailing mastiff. 
Sham No. 1. 0, Mr. Magnus Sham, 
A most untoward arrival is Queen Justitia. 

Sham No. 2. Never was so fatal message to political 
drovers and butchers, as that raptured one Queen Justitia is 
now delivering from the capitol steps. 

Magnus Sham. Courage ! 

Where was a body like me hitherto ? 
Seek the stage most suited to a rostrum. 
I'll thunder opposition, and distract 
The Sovereigns, and so destroy Justitia, 
Puppet of that contriver, Hercules Power. 



38 THE SOLDIEB OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

[Exeunt Mr. Magnus Sham and Company and their 
numerous friends, retainers, fuglemen and office- 
seekers. 

[Re-enter Mr. Magnus Sham, supported between two 
friends, and followed by his numerous retainers 
and office-seekers. 
Sham No. 1. Justitia, Heaven's capital Queen, has just 
now published her capitol message from the capitol steps. 

Magnus Sham. Now behooves I address the masses of 
the people, and with overpowering verbiage neutralize the 
rapturous effect of her message. 

Re-enter Hercules Power. 

Magnus Sham. thou bold villain Power ! 

Hercules Power. Enlightenment will be bold, sir, En 

lightenment, whose mission is to renew the old haggarc 

world like the diamond. 

Magnus Sham. Fy, thou knave ! 
To seize so naughtily on the capitol, 
And all the avenues for your celebration. 

Hercules Power. Good sir, why not ? Enlightenment 
and Enlightened Law and Government merit the greatest 
eclat of all the world. 

Magnus Sham. I'm sick ! I'm took with cholera, help 
me home ! 

Sham No. I. Mr. Magnus ! dear, Mr. Sham! 

[Exit Magnus, borne away by his friends 



the world's captain. 39 



CHAPTER II. 

Scene. — A Street. A rough board affair, known as the 
Polls. Enter citizen voters, about to deposit their votes. 
Fuglemen of the big Beggars of offices get hold of them 
and ply them with their usual crafty arts. Enter General 
Power and young men of the Army of the Sun. 

First Politician. Vote for Stuffem, he'll give you this, 
that and t'other, and share the last penny with you like a 
brother. Hurrah for Stuffem ! 

Gen. Power. Sovereign Citizens! what is't you're 
doing ? 

Raptured Voters. Voting ! 

Gen. Power. Ignorantly, and so shipwrecking your own, 
and your country's rapturous fortune ; and indeed giving all 
mankind up for a prey for want of an Enlightened Diamond 
Republic. 

Politicians. Voting they are ; exercising their glorious 
privilege of the ballot, sir. 

Gen. Power. Voting for the cajoling beggars of office 
you are. 

Politicians. Exercising their glorious privilege of the 
ballot, they are. 

Gen. Power. Ballot ! great privilege to ballot beggars 
into place, to sponge upon their industry. 

Raptured Voters. How now, General Power? 

Gen. Power. 0, sovereign citizens, listen no more to 
cajoling beggars for office. No more uphold their self-inter- 
ested Pharisaic version of law and government, a hash up of 
Rome and Britain, deadly upon trade, business and popula- 
tion 1 



40 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

Raptured Voters. Why? 

Gen. Power. Vote no pettifoggers of speculative legisla- 
tures. Vote the Enlightened Law and Government, which 
soon ravishes an innumerable Diamond Republic, and United 
Brotherhood of all Mankind, immeasurably rapturing trade, 
business and population. 

Raptured Voters. How? 

Gen. Power. Know, sovereign citizens, that the true 
law and government, Enlightened Law and Government, 
comes by universal acclamation, the same as you'd applaud 
heaven, which it is, indeed, before everything. 

1st Raptured Voter. Law and Government by universal 
acclamation ? Impossible ever it could be. 

Gen Power. No, quite easy ! 

2d Raptured Voter. How, how ? 

Gen. Power. Enlightenment immediately uses up all bigots, 
despots, and ignorant majorities ! Enlightenment now at 
once, in Eapturous Presses, in Rapturous Universities, or 
Churches, schools and colleges combined of the whole people 
— conducted by the Rapturous Clergy, or ministers of En- 
lightenment, inaugurates the Diamond Republic or United 
Brotherhood of all Mankind. 

Raptured Voters. Diamond Republic ! United Brother- 
hood of all Mankind 1 

1st Raptured Voter. Why, rapturous General Power, that 
were heaven begun on earth ! 

Gen. Power. Yea, gentlemen, and do you not sigh to 
realize so happy heaven in the present ? 

Raptured Voters. Ay, we do ! 

Gen. Power. Well, you have the key of it bequeathed 
you by the enlightened, patriotic Fathers of the Republic, who 
originally wrested our liberties from plagued tyrant George. 

Raptured Voters. We know, we have the key. 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 41 

2d Raptured Voter. But, do not know how to employ 
the key of liberty to our enlightened profit. 

1st Raptured Voter. Instruct us how, rapturous General 
Power ! 

Politician. How dare you instigate sedition, sir ? 

Gen. Power. The sedition is with you, traitors to God, 
traitors to mankind, traitors to nature, traitors to your own 
selves, your families and your children, in the end as you will 
know when you abjure the devil and embrace enlightenment. 

Politician. You're obstructing the polls with your Enlight- 
enment. 

Gen. Power, Enlightenment raptures you home to your only 
legitimate sphere. No more power in the Diamond Repub- 
lic, with all mankind raptured to foundations, to one man than 
another. 

Raptured Voter. General Power, read us a few para- 
phrases of Enlightened Gospel ! 

Gen. Power. Enlightenment teaches that but for the hag- 
gard plague of politics and party disastrous state invention, 
its haggard offspring, the population of the United States were 
now a hundred millions of Sovereign united Citizens, a glori- 
ous Happy Family of Enlightened Freemen, in lieu of only 
thirty millions of distracted sects and factions. 

1st Raptured Voter. Hurrah, government by universal En- 
lightened acclamation ! 

I 2d Raptured Voter. Hurrah, rapturous Churches or Uni 
versities of the Whole People! 

2>d Raptured Voter. Hurrah, every man his own landlord 
by Enlightened Law, giving rent to buy the property. 

4th Raptured Voter. Hurrah, Rapturous Presses of the 
Enlightened Sovereign People ! 

5tk Raptured Voter. Hurrah, the Sovereign Citizens uni- 
ted in a Diamond Republic of Mankind ! 



42 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE; OR, 

[Exeunt General Power, Raptured Voters and young 
men of the Army of the Sun, 

1st Politician. What a thundering and yet enlightened 
tempest of a revolution this is ! 

2d Politician. Nothing but to merge with the Enlighten- 
ed Citizens. 

3d Politician. Well, we have a homestead and lot assured 
at all events. 

1st Politician. A future, raptured footing in God's earth, 
In lieu of a despairing grasp of precipice, 
Such as society hitherto was. 

1st Politician. How fearlessly did he charge upon us all 
the needless disorders of our great country, now perfectly 
assured of an enlightened glorious future ! 

3c? Politician. It is perfectly true ; anthropophagous 
hashes of British law ; profitable for initiated pettifoggers, 
but deadly bigot and despot blight of trade, business, and 
population. 

SONG DUETT. 

1st Politician. Bravo, General Power 

2d Politician. Come we away after. 

3d Pol. Enlightened Apostle of the rapturous future I 

All. Ravishing perfect glorious government and law ! 

Hurrah 1 

Ravishing perfect glorious government and law ! 

Glorious Government and Law ' 

Hurrah ! 

Inaugurating glorious, glorious Government and Law. 

[Politicians take down their posters and handbills, 
and walk off singing and carrying with them their 
ballot-boxes and poll-booths. 



the world's captain. 43 



CHAPTER III, 

The arrival of the Queen of Heaven's representative, who is 
welcomed by an astonishing assemblage, when enter, 
standing up erect in their carriages, Ladies Gog and 
Magog, who, as soon as they behold Justitia in the midst 
of the splendid retinue, faint backwards in the arms of 
lackeys. 

Madam Gog $f Magog. ! 

1st Lackey. Help, ho ! 

2c? Lackey. Help the ladies of the ambassadors. 

1st Diamond Cit. Lo, the Queen of Heaven's represen- 
tative 
Is on her way to inaugurate the diamond future. 

2c? Diamond Cit. See the ladies of the Ambassadors are 
carried off. 

1st Lackey. My lord Magog 1 ho ! help for my lady. 

2d Lackey. My lord Gog ! ho ! help for my lady. 

[Lackeys vociferate. 

1st Diamond Cit. Let us help the ladies of the Ambassa- 
dors. 

2d Diamond Cit. Help them ! Let them help them- 
selves. 

1st Diamond Cit. How, sir ? 

2c? Diamond Cit. Marry, sir, get a better heart. 

3c? Diamond Cit. Ay, for their corrupt one gives them 
so much pain and anguish of envy they have swooned on the 
mere view of the incomparable Queen of Heaven's represen- 
tative, Justitia. 

[Madam Gog, and Madam Magog are borne off by 
lackeys. 



44 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE ; OR, 

Id Diamond Cit. The fashionable women are killed off 
even by envy of 
The ravishing sight of Heaven's perfect Queen, 
The glorious out flower of the ages, 
For whom the time hath languished hitherto. 

1st Diamond Cit. 'Tis pity, if they cannot look on Hea- 
ven's proxy, without going off in faint. 

2d Diamond Cit. Ay, something very flagrant in them, 
when they faint away in view of perfection. 

[Re-enter Gog and Magog.] 

Gog. Where's my lady ? 

Magog. Where's lady Magog ? 

Director Diamond. Gentlemen, at the capital sight of the 
Queen of Heaven, your ladies swooned, and are just now 
borne off by lackeys ! 

Magog. More deadly work of democratic upstart Power, 
for which, I swear, I'll have his life, or such full bloody 
measure of vengeance, as will amaze you, Gog. Come ! 

[Exeunt Gog and Magog. 

[Enter the Emissary, otherwise the Ambassador of 
the Gamesters of the Tuileries and his lady, and 
implore Gen. Power. 

1st Diamond Cit. See the Emissary of the political Game- 
ster of the Tuileries ! 

Lady of the Amb. of the Gam. of the Tuileries. General 
Power, do have mercy on your own kindred that bear your 
own name, the Great Powers of Europe, and especially have 
mercy on our dear aristocracies. 

Gen. Power. Madam, as my duty is, I am about to pro- 
mulgate Enlightened Law, which embraced by the masses 
auspiciously merges the Great Powers, and ravishes Enlight- 



the world's captain. 45 

ened Government, otherwise the kingdom of Heaven. I 
shall go on, to inaugurate the Millennium. 

[Hereupon ravishing murmurs ascend from the in- 
numerable sovereign citizens, in view and out of 
view. Enter General Power, jubilant Young men 
and Veterans of the army of the Sun. 

Young men and Veterans. 0, citizens, arrived is the 
Queen of Heaven, 
Arrived is Heaven's perfect, ravishing Queen. 

Gen. Power. Forth, citizens, and welcome Heaven's 
representative. 

[Exeunt General Power, and Citizens, Young men, 

and Veterans. 
[Re-enter Gog and Magog, severally hurrying his 
lady across the stage, supported by lackeys. 
Gog. This way ! 

Magog. Ay, this way 1 The other way, democratic up- 
start Power is holding forth in flattery of his proxy, of what 
does he call her ? 

[Re-enter General Power.] 
Gen. Power. Heaven inaugurating Enlightened Law, 
which, once embraced by the citizens, supersedes the an- 
thropophagous Great Powers, and institutes Heaven's own 
kingdom, Mankind's Diamond Union. 
Magog. The carriage, ho 1 the carriage ! 

[Exeunt Gog and Magog, and the ladies supported 
by lackeys. Exeunt Hercules Power, and citizens. 



46 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE J OK, 



CHAPTER IV. 

Scene. — A room in Hercules Power's house. Secretaries at 
work. The Captain of Enlightened Law and Diamond 
Conquest is writing despatches to the several endless, tax- 
grinding, and impoverishing governments. 

Secretary. Commander General Power's despatch to Louis 
Napoleon ; demanding him why he shouldn't acknowledge 
the Universal Brilliant and Opulent Republic of the Enlight- 
ened Sovereign People, inaugurated by Enlightened Law, 
which exalted in America, ravishes all the world according 
to the same rapturous, enduring pattern, setting all society 
in order, like the everlasting brilliant harmonious stars. 

Special Messenger. Commander General Power's despatch 
to Louis Napoleon, sir 1 

Secretary. Commander General Power's despatch to the 
Emperor of Austria, demanding him to acknowledge the 
Universal Brilliant and Opulent Republic of the Enlightened 
united Raptured Sovereigns. 

Special Mess. Commander General Power's despatch to 
the Emperor of Austria, sir ! 

Secretary. Commander General Power's despatch to the 
Parliament and Ministry, demanding them in the name of 
God and the Sovereign People, why they should not recog- 
nize the world-wide, resplendent Opulent Diamond Union of 
Enlightened, and united and Raptured Sovereign Mankind, 
every one of the universal harmonious brotherhood, ravished 



the world's captain. 47 

to be his own landlord by Enlightened Law, prerogatived like 
majesty in his own right to walk the world, and enjoy it like 
royalty with right glorious infallible addition. 

Special Mess. Ay, sir, Commander General Power's dis- 
patch to the Parliament and Ministry ! 

[Enter Lords Gog and Magog, and attendants. 

Gog. wo the day ! What keeps the bankers, does any 
body know ? 

Hercules Power. Nothing, but they are loath to stultify 
themselves by sitting down between two stools. 

Magog. Everything depends on the magnificent bribe 
To offer Power to corrupt him, and 
Destroy him as the Enlightened hope of the people. 

Gog. if the bankers don't hurry up, the props will be 
knocked from under our respective governments ! 

Magog. Go to all the handy bankers 1 Tell them we 
want twenty-five millions to offer Hercules Power. 

[Exeunt Secretaries of Gog and Magog. 

Hercules Power. Vain it is, Lord Magog. I have no in- 
tention to forego and abandon my contemplated rapturous 
expedition to liberate Europe by Enlightenment and Enlight- 
ened Law, inaugurating an irrepressible upward popular 
movement, toppling down great Powers, and creating by 
natural force of circumstance, correct, self-supporting, and 
identical public administration for the several nations, become 
a universal Brotherhood. 

Gog. wo the day ! Enlightenment and Enlightened Law 
Will rapidly dry up governments tax-grinding, 
And turn old Europe to a giant young 
Diamond Republic. 
wo the day ! Ambassadors are in a sorry way. 

Enter Young men of the Army of the Sun. 



48 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

1st Young man. Ambassadors that pride themselves so 
highly, 
Are no bodies in enlightened future. 

2d Young man. What need of Ambassadors in world 
magnetically amalgamated by telegraphs, I cannot under- 
stand. 

[Enter Bankers, with clerks carrying sacks of gold. 

Banker. Commander Hercules Power, all this great sum 
is yours ; besides a liberal grant of land out west, to forego 
your contemplated expedition to liberate Europe by Enlight- 
ened Law announcements. 



CHAPTER V. 



Scene. — A park. Preparations for the Inaugural Celebra- 
tion. An amphitheatre. Enter General Hercules Power 
and his staff of officers. Enter Lords Gog and Magog and 
attendants. 

1st Citizen. See, the Ambassadors. 

Lord Magog. Sir, what exception do ye take to the Am- 
bassadors. 

1st Citizen. None, yet if you'd know our mind — 

Lord Magog. I shall know it or belabor you into a con- 
fession. 

1st Citizen. Your tax-grinding masters are a kind of 
fashionable highwaymen, who say to the nations, ' stand and 
deliver — your money or your life !' 

Lord Magog. Ha, villain, follower of upstart Power I 



the world's captain. 49 

Gen. Power. Individual thrones operate to abase the 
Sovereign Citizens. 

Young men. Wipe them out ! 
Away with them out of God's rapturous ship ! 

Gen. Power. No ! Young men of the Army of the Sun, 
Enlightenment is the king and general of peaceful triumphs. 

Lord Magog. Ha, ha, ha I They look terrible threaten- 
ing. 

Gen. Power. Yet, I'll show them thrones enough. My 
Lords, look, there are the matter of forty set around this 
amphitheatre. 

Lord Gog. Ha, ha, ha 1 We see ! 

Gen. Power. In the centre is a crowning throne, approach- 
ed by a grand flight of stairs richly carpeted. 

Lord Magog. O ho ! 

Gen. Power. I am about to fill those forty and odd 
thrones with as many model queens, the representatives of a 
future Diamond United States. K 

Lord Gog. Ha, hang thine ingenuity, going to confound 
the particular Great Powers. 

Lord Magog. A knave, a knave, a most villainous con- 
triver ! 

Lord Gog. Who's she allotted to the middle throne in 
your amphitheatre. 

Gen. Power. Justitia, proxy of Heaven who filleth all 
except — 

Lord Gog. Ha, what ? 

Gen. Power. Satan's stereotyped Empire, Christendom ; 
a Pharisaic masterpiece, unauthorized by Christ, whose 
prayer is God's kingdom of Heaven ! 

Lord Gog. Ha, indeed ! 

Lord Magog. why, sir, you'll fail with your Enlighten- 
ment. Brougham, in England, tried the diffusion of useful 



THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 50 

knowledge with but little appreciable good toward elevating 
the masses. 

Gen. Powe?\ Gentlemen, Enlightenment is not political 
economy" colored suitable to the views of England's gover- 
nors, but an imbuing with God's ideas, according to his uni- 
versal rapturous surrounding standard of heaven ; accomplish- 
ing, not only its own diamond triumph, but also the inaugu- 
ration of natural straightforward Law, Enlightened Law, 
achieving the highest good of all the world in God's immedi- 
ate Kingdom of Heaven. 

Gen. Eagle. Of this sort of Enlightenment we have the 
greatest hope, as the foundation of a vital republic of the 
globe, a United Brotherhood of the nations, inaugurated on 
the mergence of the Great Powers, by rapturous operation 
of Enlightened Law. 

Lord Gog. Confusion ! 

Lord Magog. Ho, hurry up the shoulder-hitters ! 

Valet. Ay, sir! [Valet goes accordingly. 

Lord Gog. Ho, bring hither the pugilists I 

[Still another messenger goes. 

2d Valet. Ay, sir ! 

Lord Magog. Gog, go ourselves, and like Boreas inspire 
them with a reckless fury for the warlike brunt. 

[Thereon exeunt, but presently re-enter the giant am- 
bassadors Lords Gog and Magog, heading an as- 
semblage of pugilists and rowdies. 

Lord Magog. Hit in right and left ! 

Lord Gog. Give it him ! 

Lord Magog. Knock down upstart democratic Power ! 

Lord Gog. Pitch into the would-be Napoleon of Enlight- 
enment ! 

Enter the Young men of the Army of the Sun. 



the world's captain. 5l 

1st Young man. I am one of the Army of the Sun. 

[Pulls forth an elastic gilded helmet, ornamented 
with a plume, and dons the same. 
2d Young man. And I, another. 

[Also dons a gilded helmet and plume. 
3c? Young man. And I ! 
Young men. So we are all ! 

[At the same moment more than a hundred stand 
forth equipped with similar helmet and plume. 
Hercules Power. Hundreds of standards in the world, hut 
Enlightenment the only complete one. Hail, Enlighten- 
ment's standard, that probably sball soon precede every other; 
Enlightenment, latest, most perfect. 

1st Citizen. Now, I do believe here is the final great 
battle between the warring powers of darkness and light. 
2c? Citizen. rapturous General Power ! 
Zd Citizen. enlightened perfect, brotherly Power ! 
4cth Citizen. noble Hercules Power I 

[Magog and Gog lead on the pugilists. Young men 
of the Army of the Sun form a phalanx, and 
briefly repel the assailants. 
1st Young man. It's over ! 
2d Young man. We've routed them 1 
3d Young man. Gog and Magog have taken to their heels. 
1st Young man. See them flying like two windmills broke 
from their fastenings. 

2d Young man. Ho, Gog ! ho, Magog ! 
Gen. Power. In vain you counsel them to stop. They're 
mad with affright and ugly haggard hearted terror. 

Enter a sergeant and soldiers. 
Sergeant. Strange to see giants have so little self-reliance 



52 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OB, 

All. Ha, ha, ha, laughable to see such big animals in full 
flight. 

Gen. Power. Deplorable, but it is a fact that giants are 
usually a coward heap, without a nerving spark of fire or 
heart. 

Sergeant. I reckon so, General 1 

Gen. Power. What is your age, sergeant ? 

Sergeant. Thirty, general ! 

Gen. Power. Have you a wife and children ? 

Sergeant. I cannot boast myself blessed with so refreshing 
additions. 

Gen. Power. What's the reason ? Because you cannot 
afford it, you'll say. Perhaps, you do not know that every 
tax-grinding government is a furnace over and around the 
Sovereign Citizens, disfranchising them of individual sover- 
eign rights, and concentrating them like arid particles of fire 
to prey upon one another. 

Sergeant. Ay, I doubt not, General Power ! 

Gen. Power. Yet, good sergeant, and all you privates, 
patriotically support our government as you have sworn, until 
I have liberated Europe by my expedition of Enlightenment 
and Enlightened Law, that I have undertook thither, when 
all tax-grinding governments will drop away to a public ad- 
ministration self-supporting, with a moderate beneficial power 
to hinder accidents, and otherwise minister to the Sovereign 
Citizens. 

Soldiers. Hurrah, Enlightenment's apostle I Hurrah, 
Power ! 

[Thereupon separate with acclamations. 



X 



the world's captain. 53 



CHAPTER VI. 

Promulgation of Enlightened Law. The Key of the King- 
dom of Heaven. Queen Justitia's Message and Proclama- 
tion. Inauguration of the Universal Enlightened Diamond 
Republic of Mankind. 

Scene. — A park in the vicinity of Washington, formed into 
an amphitheatre, in the centre whereof is a grand throne 
for the Queen of Heaven's proxy, and surrounding it more 
than forty other thrones for as many queenly ladies, depu- 
ties from the same number of states and territories. 

Her ineffable Majesty, Justitia, representing the Queen of 
Heaven, presently arrives, transported in a coach, drawn 
by milk-white steeds, followed by Honora, and forty other 
Sovereign Women. 

1st Citizen. Lo, their Majesties the Queens and their re- 
spective trains ascend the thrones allotted them in the grand 
theatre. 

2d Citizen. Bravo ! The raptured Sovereign Citizens 
hang like clustering bees upon the ripe lips of the Queen of 
Heaven's proxy, Justitia. 

[Thereupon enter Young men of the Army of the 
Sun and raptured Mechanics, followed by young 
ladies with robes and crowns. 
1st Citizen. Who are they ? 

2d Citizen. Ladies in the train of admired Justitia. 
Hercules Power. Hail, Sovereign brothers in United 
Diamond Republic of the Globe. 

Justitia. Array the Sovereigns in their robes of state ! 



64 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE J OE, 

[The Ladies apparel the glorified Laborers and rap- 
tured Mechanics, and at the same time cover their 
heads with crowns. 
Hercules Power. Behold what mighty consequence awaits 
the Sovereign Citizens by unity, the fruit of Enlightenment 
A lot in God's raptured ship, perfection, happiness, liberty, 
plenty of children ; plenty of everything assured under En- 
lightened Law, the key of the Kingdom of Heaven. 

1st Citizen. The citizens by Enlightenment are become 
wholly and entirely sovereign. 

Id Citizen. Where was ever a pageant in ancient or mod- 
ern Europe to equal it ? 

Bd Citizen. Cassars may well despair ! 
Napoleon have doubts for his dynasty. 

The citizens then sing the following 

SONG. 

1. 
Bravo ! 

Heavenly liberty ! 

Gracious fruit of Enlightened unity. 

2. 

Bravo ! 

The United Brotherhood, 

Rapturing ahead 

Population, business, trade. 

3. 

Bravo ! 

Man a unit, 

Finished like the diamond, 

By Enlightenment. 

Bravo ! Bravo ! 

1st Citizen. Thanks, General Power ! 






the world's captain. 55 

Justitia demonstrates her celestial race, 
Capitally representing heaven's rapturous face. 

Hercules Power. The innumerable Sovereign Citizens, 
Enlightened and united by Enlightenment, 
Now form harmonious unit like the planet. 

I have 
All powerful revelation of Enlightenment 
Will strike tax-grinding Powers with dismay, 
And scatter them like darkness by invasion 
Of omnipotent Phcebus' darts. Speak, Justitia ! 

Justitia. To all the People, T, Justitia, beg to say, you 
can only accomplish individual Sovereignty through unity 
attained by Enlightenment and Enlightened Law ; the 
thing alone endowed with almighty magnetic power, to rap- 
ture and maintain mankind in harmony, like everlasting 
heavenly spheres. The enlightened unity of all the people 
begets Enlightened Law and Government, otherwise God's 
Kingdom of Heaven by universal popular acclamations, and 
briefly brings all mankind into a universal Diamond Repub- 
lic of trade and population. 

1st Citizen. Welcome, Justitia ! 

Harbinger of Enlightenment and Enlightened Law ! 
Herald of millennium, and world complete ! 

Justitia. Hitherto hindered by the wiles of Satan, 
By Pharisaic creed and superstition, 
Perverting pure and sovereign truth of God ; 
Heaven's genuine and saving love and light. 

[Young men and Veterans of the Army of the Sun, 
Raptured Mechanics, and Glorified Laborers, then 
sing the following 

song. v 
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 
The Enlightened Law ! 



56 THE SOLDIER 0! THE PEOPLE ] OB, 

Ravishing heavenly unity and content ! 
Rapturing population ; with it, trade ! 

Forming grand harmonious diamond 

World, grand omnipotent unit ! 

Rapt, enlightened, onward planet ! 

Hurrah I Hurrah ! 
The Enlightened Law ! 

Rapturing ahead 
Population, business, trade ! 

Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 

Gen. Power. I, Hercules Power, demand in the name of 
God and the sovereign People, united by true enlighten- 
ment, why Heaven and everlasting constitution of God's 
universal Empire should not be voted as the permanent form 
of administration for mundane affairs, with Honorary Pres- 
idents in the rational, enlightened future ; in lieu of the now 
exorbitant tax-grinding and .rent-grinding political powers, 
devouring trade, business, and population ; operating like 
endless inhuman mountains in the way of a Diamond Union 
of all mankind, immediately accomplished as soon as the citi- 
zens embrace Enlightened Law. 

1st Citizen. Bravo ! In all the grand enlightened theatre 
Not one discordant murmur heard. 

2d Citizen. Nothing 

But boundless plaudits to the Queen of Heaven, 
And the infinite other sovereign queens. 

3d Citizen. rapturous General Power, proceed 
To enter up the enlightened judgment. 

Gen. Power. Know all anthropophagous Powers, unnatu- 
ral arrogators of exorbitant usurped rights, of endless tax- 
grinding and rent-grinding inventions, no one appearing to 
answer my summons and complaint, in the cause of God and 



the world's captain. 57 

the Enlightened People, why a universal Diamond Republic 
and United Brotherhood should not be proclaimed, I am 
about to enter up enlightened judgment against you every 
and all, for all the raptured future. 

[Enter Magog and his men.] 

Magog. I've heard their summons, blow a counter chal- 
lenge I [Magog's men blow trumpets. 

Magog 1 s Men. There, sir ! 

1st Mechanic. Stop, here, I think, is a champion of the 
Powers come forth, to encounter General Power, and question 
the Queen of Heaven's right in the world, whether by her- 
self or her representative. 

2d Mechanic. Well, truly, fit champion of exorbitant tax- 
grinders. A flagrant mountain of flesh, fool- hardy as Go- 
liath of the Philistines. 

1st Mechanic. Who's the blustering giant ? 

2d Mechanic. Magog, Ambassador of Magogland. 

Magog. I've heard their summons, blow a counter chal- 
lenge ! , 

[Magog's men sound their trumpets once more. 

Gen. Power. Well, Magog, what have you to urge against 
Heaven, celestial majesty, everlasting Sovereign of Nature's 
Rapturous Empire, queen of humanity in the enlightened 
future, of whom I am devoted champion ? 

1st Mechanic. And I 1 

2d Mechanic. And all the enlightened, raptured world, 
too, General Power. Throw down the gauntlet ; I defy you, 
Power ! 

[Gauntlet thrown down at General Power's feet. 

Bd Mechanic. Magog's a giant engrossed with himself, 
heedless of heaven and everybody, capital creature of the 
Powers, a fit ambassador of exorbitant masters. 



58 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 






Gen. Power. You have entirely misapprehended the sum- 
mons and complaint, Mr. Magog. 

Magog. I dare you, Power, to the mortal, terrible en- 
counter 1 

[Magog looks awful fierce and iron cruel and severe 
at Power. 

Gen. Power. I dare say you would, Mr. Magog I but I 
have no reckless, inebriate desire to gratify your brutal and 
bloody appetite. 

Magog. Come- on, ye villain, Power, 
And fight me, if ye dare ! 

[Magog squares his fists and strikes out at Power. 

Gen. Power. Mr. Magog, that's not answering the sum- 
mons and complaint. This isn't a sparring exhibition only 
in the sense of enlightened argument, addressed to the rea- 
son of the sovereign citizens. 

Magog. Come on, ye villain, Power, 
And fight me if you durst ! 

[Magog again squares his fists and strikes out at 
Power. 

Gen. Power. Director Diamond, read aloud the summons 
and complaint to Mr. Magog, yet ignorant of its intention. 

Magog. Lord Ambassador of his Imperial Majesty the 
Emperor of Austria, sirrah. 

Director Diamond. Ay, read aloud the summons, so Mr. 
Magog will have no opportunity to pretend ignorance here- 
after. 

Clerk. (Reads) Know all you anthropophagous Powers, 
monstrous usurpers of mankind's natural rights, preposterous 
arrogators of inherited property in earth, disfranchising great 
masses of the people hy grasping up God's free soil, and 



the world's captain. 59 

refusing Enlightened Law, that would plant all mankind 
auspiciously to become their own landlords by instalments of 
rent ; thereupon drafting numbers of the unfortunate dis- 
franchised into armies, to be used as an arm to oppress and 
reduce their own countrymen, and doing many other exorbi- 
tant things to at length move indignant Heaven to put an 
end to you in the world, know ; that I, Hercules Power, on 
the 4th of July, in the city of Washington, will present to 
the Enlightened Citizens, Queen Justitia, Heaven's admira- 
ble proxy, who will proclaim the Universal Diamond Repub- 
lic, or United Brotherhood of Mankind ; also, the rapturous 
Enlightened Law and Government suited to the Diamond 
Republic ; and, if you fail to answer, I shall take enlightened 
judgment against you in the cause of God and the enlight- 
ened sovereign People, for all the raptured future. 

HERCULES POWER, 

Soldier of the People ; 

Serving in the innumerable Grand Army of the 
Sun, or the universal, enlightened, Diamond 
Union of the nations, soon accomplished by En- 
lightened Law. 

Gen. Eagle. This is the enlightened court of Heaven, 
Mr. Magog; this is not a prize ring, nor yet a bloody arena, 
as you'd like to see glorious free America converted into, like 
miserable disfranchised Europe. 

Gen. Trump. Respectable Mr. Magog, though no bloody 
battle is anticipated upon to-day, yet the most glorious de- 
cisive one that ever the world has known, now awaits its 
achievement. 

Lord Magog. Ha, come on, Power ! I dare ye to the 
mortal encounter ! 



60 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

Gen. Eagle. Fy, Lord Magog ! Have more respect to 
the glorious occasion, the millennial inauguration. 

Gen. Diamond. This is the Enlightened hallowed Court 
of heaven, 
To estahlish justice at the rapturous start; 
And open up to Enlightened mankind, 
Prospect like heaven of unending glory, 
And immeasurable opulence and content. 

Clerk. General Power, look out, Magog's coming on. 

[Lord Magog squares at General Power. 

Hercules Tower. In vain, Mr. Magog, 
You rage like tiger. The world's raptured away 
To Enlightened heaven and glorious unity. 
Hark! 

[Enter Raptured Mechanics and young men of the 
Army of the Sun singing the following 

SONG. 

Bravo, celestial 

Justice, Queen of Heaven, 
Dealing so equitable 
'Tween man and man. 
Bravo, Heaven's Queen so perfect brilliant, 
Rapturing the earth like the diamond, 
An unconquerable fraternal unit. 

[Exeunt Raptured Mechanics and young men of the 
Army of the Sun, singing still. Magog continues 
squaring at Gen Power. 

1st Mechanic. Lord Magog, Titans have the poorest 
chance in the enlightened future. Tax-grinding Caesars 
have hardly any prospect but to go into ordinary business. 
2d Mechanic. Paupers have more prospect than Caesars in 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 61 

the future ; the latter to be raptured or created by Enlight- 
ened Law, the former to be equitably curtailed or auspicious- 
ly merged with the citizens. 

[Lord Magog squares his fists again at Gen. Power. 
Lord Magog. Come on, ye villain, Power I 
And fight me if you durst. 

[During all the time of Magog's pugilistic demonstra- 
tions, Hercules Power is inditing despatches to his 
Secretary. 

Clerk. General Power, look out, Magog's coming on like 
an exploding bomb. 

[The General looks up a moment from the manuscript. 

Hercules Power. Mr. Magog, like an aggrandizing giant, is 
largely engrossed with the care of his own interests, I dare 
say. 

Clerk. Like our politicians and lobby villains in that. 

1st Mechanic. And now exceeding desperate is Magog 
with so much at stake. 

[Magog continues squaring and threatening General 

Power. 
Lord Magog. Where's Gog, does anybody know ? 

[Enter Gog, doubtful and hesitating, who finally 

takes counsel of prudence, and conceals himself out 

of sight of warlike Magog. 

Lord Magog. Where's Gog ? He did promise to be at 
my elbow in the affray. Call him, Herald ! 

Herald. Ho, my Lord Gog ! It is the eve of battle, 
Pregnant with dangers like a gulf of water, 
When you need courage, like a glowing fire, 
To speedily and illustriously decide it. 

Lord Magog. Where's Gog, does anybody know ? 



62 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE ; OR, 

Herald. Lo, yonder, in a brown and anxious study 
That augureth ill for his courage. 
Lord Magog. Ho, Gog ! 

[Upon the peremptory call to the combat, Gog wildly 
6tartles and dashes across the stage in headlong, 
precipitate flight. Stopped by the people, he des- 
perately retraces his steps for an opening on the 
other side. 
Lord Magog. What, who's the distracted thing ? Some 
of Power's army ? 

Herald. No, sir, Gog, faithful gentleman, whom you've 
started away by your exciting summons to the critical en- 
counter. 

Lord Magog. Gog ! Gog ! stop him, ho. 1 stop him ! 

[The people attempt, but in vain, to intercept fugi- 
tive Gog. 
1st Gent. My lord Gog dodges pursuit in zig-zag fashion 
of a hare, or the most cowardly creature, pursued within an 
ace of its life. 

Lord Magog. Gog, I no more know you among my 
friends. 

Herald. Truly, an affrighted turkey-hen never made 
more desperate strides for a cover. 

Lord Magog. Hang Gog ! I'm demigod and sufficient 
myself for democratic, upstart Power. 

1st Gent. Truly, coward Gog would only clog you iu the 
heroic struggle, my Lord Magog. 

Lord Magog. war ! 

Thou art the nurse and foster of true glory. 
O war, war, war ! 

[Magog swaggers like a giant back and forth ; then 
pauses, and hugs his sword, anon swaggers again. 






the world's captain. 63 

1st Mechanic. Bravo, Lord Magog I 

Your step is perfect warlike as ever Hector. 

2c? Mechanic. Amusing to behold the ungainly giant 
Pacing in vain and desperate mimickry of 
The rapt enlightened phrenzy of true genius. 

Lord Magog. It is sought to wither the Great Powers, 
and slaughter them in public opinion. 

Clerk. Ay, I have served summons and complaint upon 
the several anthropophagous and endless tax-grinding de- 
fendants. 

Lord Magog. I, their champion, Lord Magog, do here 
challenge any man in America, not excepting upstart demo- 
cratic Power, glorious fool of the people, and no enlightened 
soldier, as he pretends. 

[Hereupon enter Tom Glory, the Champion of Amer- 
ica, and his seconds. Jumping on the stage, Tom 
strips stark, and throws down the gage to martial 
Magog. 

"Who are ye ? 

Tom Glory. Tom Glory, Champion of America ! 
Right glad, my Lord Magog, of the opportunity 
To answer you. 

Prize Fighter. Lord Magog, you're a gentleman, and as 
perhaps you need a bottleholder, skilled in the manly art of 
self-defence, I tender myself your second for the nonce. 

Lord Magog. Hang me, but the devil of fight being in 

me 

I'm bound to slaughter somebody. Here's at thee, Tom 

Glory. 
Glory, look out for thy laurels. 

[Magog strikes out at Tom Glory 



64 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE ; OR, 

Prize Fighter. Magog, give up you your pistols and 
bowie knife. No glory to fight with such. 

[Magog surrenders his weapons. Tom Glory trips 
up Magog. Magog rises in terrific rage and again 
strikes out wildly at the champion, who trips him a 
second time. The giant is picked up by valets, 
and his bleeding carcass borne off upon their 
shoulders. 

[Enter General Trump, General Eagleson, and other 
chief officers of General Power's Staff. 

Gen. Eagle. General Power, we await your orders. 

Hercules Power. Be prepared to resist any charge on her 
majesty, Queen Justitia, by the political wolves, vultures, 
and vampires. 



CHAPTER VII. 

The second day of the celebration. 

S cene — the same. Amphitheatre in the park near Wash- 
ington city. Continuation of the ceremonies of the previ- 
ous day, interrupted by the boisterous misbehavior of 
ambassadors Gog and Magog. 

Presently enters amid universal acclamations, Justitia, rep- 
resenting the Queen of Heaven, clad in a robe of white 
satin, her head encircled with a tiara of diamonds. 

Hercules Power. Hail, Justitia, perfect 
Handmaid of God ! 

Old Time. Behold the proxy of Celestial Justice, Queen 



the world's captain. 65 

of Heaven, who has waited the matter of six thousand years 
for an audience of the unhappily beguiled world, unable to 
obtain it, until at last by the grace of God and the Enlight- 
ened Sovereign People, her majesty has found it, though in 
the midst of considerable and unnatural opposition. 

Gen. Diamond. Kings have their pageants, but here is a 
new thing, the pageant of the united enlightened Sovereigns ; 
the People's own pageant that beats all that Kings have ever 
enacted. The sovereign people cannot believe what regal splen- 
dor and opulent unity await them severally in the imme- 
diate enlightened future ; in the Kingdom of Heaven ac- 
complished by Enlightened Law, exalted by unanimous ac- 
clamations of the citizens enlightened in advance. 

Hercules Power. Proclaim the universal natural law, the 
Enlightened Law, as God's own vital embodying type, to ac- 
complish the magnetic diamond union of mankind in one 
brilliant brotherhood, raptured like the omnipotent planet in 
one grand unit to pursue a path forever onward in unending 
heaven. 

[Here ushers arrive from the capitol who announce 
the refusal of the special legislative bodies to enter- 
tain the Enlightened Law. 

Gen. Power. Since we cannot be heard within the capitol, 
Here publish forth the true Enlightened Law, 
In more appropriate and happy sphere, 
The open air, beneath the canopy 
Of Heaven, denoting God's munificence. 

Queen of Ohio. So will every stormy revolution be avoided 
in the enlightened future. 

Queen of Pennsylvania. So will trade and business thrive im- 
measurably. 

Queen of New Jersey. So will man's faith in man be rap- 
turous, and Paradise be realized. 



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66 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OE, 

Queen of Kentucky. So will innumerable merchants an 
tradesmen become like princes, with revenue more than gov 
ernments, now. 

Queen of Louisiana. So will authors, editors, have roya 
incomes. 

Queen of Texas. So will mechanics and laborers enjoy 
plenty and content. 

Queen of Missouri. So will population multiply, without 
crowding. 

Queen of Iowa. So will enlightened America become th 
all-powerful magnet of the sphere, redeeming it without a 
effort, beyond rational example and rapturous demonstration, 
like the ineffable, serene heaven over all. 

Queen of Michigan. So will sacred liberty be assured for 
ever. 

Queen of Wisconsin. So will rational churches, or raptur- 
ous universities for the whole people, fill our beloved coun- 
try, and, through Enlightenment thence shed, every Hydra 
crime and misfortune dry up. 

Queen of Minnesota. So will jails, prisons, and city and 
legislative halls become needless, in great measure, and be 
modelled into rapturous universities for the sovereign enlight- 
ened, united People, sons of God, and citizens of the king- 
dom of Heaven, or mankind's universal Diamond Union. 
[Enter Senators and Representatives.] 

1st Congressman. thou bold villain, to here monopolize 
the federal capitol for your millennial celebration. 

Hercules Power. Gentlemen, here is the diamond Queen of 
Heaven's proxy, the likeness of Celestial Justice and Perfec- 
tion, who is doubtless to succeed you in the enlightened 
future of mankind. 

1st Congressman. What, sir, will you dare, raven like, 
croak revolution at the capitol ? 



the world's captain. 67 

Hercules Power. Gentlemen, enlightenment operates not 
by stormy revolution, but by gradual serene advance. En- 
lightenment is a long and glorious summer for the world, 
ripening into mellowed and perfect autumn, with God's good- 
ness realized on all sides. To save you from all violent rev- 
olution, am I come, to offer, like a new Franklin, enlighten- 
ment as the perfect safety rod, to draw off the intensified 
lightnings, the leaping vengeances, that, in the discontent of 
intestine elements in our country, ever might in the future 
crowd upon, overhang, and threaten America, that is now 
all the waiting world's hope, indeed. 

The form of government, after the citizens embrace 
Enlightened Law, will then be by universal acclamations, 
creating Heaven for the constitution, with Honorary Presi- 
dent of a public administration self-supporting. 

1st Congressman. Hi, hi, a capital tinker ! 

Hercules Power. Enlightenment, and especially Enlighten- 
ed Law, ravishing unity, delivers mankind from all exorbitant 
tax-grinding governments, and inaugurates the serene millen- 
nium. 

[Enter Ladies Gog and Magog and other ladies of the 
Embassies. 

Lady Magog. ho, ho, ho, ho ! 

Lady Gog. Government by universal acclamation ? Hi, 
hi, hi, ha 1 

Lady Magog. Ay, when will you realize it ? 

Hercules Power. My Lady, in the glorious millennium 
that's near at hand. 

Lady Magog. Government by popular acclamation. 
It is an impossibility ! 

Hercules Power. No, my Lady, on the contrary let me 
say, that Eulightenment and Enlightened Law, ravishing 
unity of the sovereign masses, renders any other government 



68 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE:. OR 



than that of universal acclamation an impossibility. Such is 
to be Heaven's government, for the world's future ; such is 
to be the Enlightened Sovereign People's government of the 
Diamond Republic. Government by heavenly acclamation 
and rejoicing, without one dissentient murmur. 

Lady Gog. the Powers ! What is to become of the 
Powers ? 

Hercules Power. Rapidly and happily absorbed by opera- 
tion of Enlightened Law, among the universal Enlightened 
Sovereign Citizens. 

Lady Magog. Shame ! How dare you breathe it here 
in the presence of the ambassadors. 

Hercules Power. My lady, it is no less true, that all the 
Powers of Europe, all the powers indeed, are dark interven- 
ing masses of thunder clouds, that Enlightened Law embrac- 
ed by the enlightened sovereign masses will rapidly and 
most effectually dry up, giving the hungering world its serene 
millennium. 

Lady Gog. dear, dear General Power, who ever would 
think that you could conceive such things ? 

Hercules Power. My lady, the great Powers have had 
their day, and a terrible unfortunate one for mankind, con- 
founded in every imaginable shape. Is it not time that 
humanity had its millennium ? 

1st Citizen. Ay, by every rosy, blushing indication, the 
morning's come, the time of the resurrection of God's Para- 
dise. 

Lady Magog. raven, to croak of disaster to the re- 
spectable Powers. 

Hercules Power. Lo, we do here inaugurate the mornino- 
of the future serene, resplendent meridian of Enlightenment 
and of Enlightened Law and Government, otherwise God's 
Kingdom of Heaven. 



the world's captain. 69 

Lady Magog. There are no queens in America, General 
Power, yet you have got an upstart Queen here to impose 
her upon the citizens. Fy ! 

Hercules Power. No queens in America ? Your ladyship 
is mistaken, and after a few years of Enlightenment in rap- 
turous Universities, I promise you as many queens in America 
as there are Enlightened womankind. Queen Justitia's 
message is of exclusive importance to the Sovereign People. 
If the world is far below Enlightenment's resplendent stand- 
ard, the sooner it is made to look up to such raptured sphere 
of perfection, happiness, opulence and unity, the better 
for all mankind. Now you see what a government 
should be ; and compare it with the governments that now 
are. 

1st Citizen. Bravo, the Diamond Republic, or an impreg- 
nable Union, accomplished by Enlightenment and Enlight- 
ened Law ! 

2d Citizen. Bravo, churches turned into Rapturous Uni- 
versities of the whole people 1 

3d Citizen. Bravo, every man his own landlord by opera- 
tion of Enlightened Law. 

1st Citizen. Down with the laws of conquerors, the end- 
less tax-grinding and rent-grinding inventions. 

2d Citizen. Down with the profitless, European, imported 
traditions of Caesars and Saints. 

3d Citizen. Down with superstitions, withering the sover- 
eign people. 

Citizens, Bravo, Enlightenment, and Enlightened Law 
and Government, otherwise, self-supporting Public Adminis- 
tration by universal acclamation. 

[Here enter more Young men and Veterans of the 
Army of the Sun. 



70 THE SOLDIER OF THE FEOPLE ; OR, 

1st Citizen. Behold the resplendent standard of Enlight- 
enment, a sun of gold wove into a cloth of silver, emblazoned 
with rapturous mottoes. 

2d Citizen. All duty to God ! Heavenly Enlightenment, 
otherwise, the Light and the Love of God, the pure gospel, 
is the Messiah whom God hath sent into the world to save it. 

3d Citizen. The straightforward Enlightened Law, inau- 
gurating Heaven's kingdom, is before all state inventions 
winding into political labyrinths. 

1st Citizen. Enlightened Law assures universal prosper- 
ity, opulence, and happiness. 

2d Citizen. God's Savings Banks are universal founda- 
tions, secured to all mankind by direct Enlightened Law, the 
key to God's kingdom. 

3d Citizen. Enlightened Law carried forth reconciles rich 
and poor for ever, and creates a universal Aristocracy. 
Mandind, thenceforth, compose one indivisible unit, raptured 
together like the planet, to fulfill omnipotent path. 

2d Citizen. This is ihe law ; God's own Enlightened 
Law. 

Zd Citizen. Heaven all surrounding is our capitol ! 

1st Citizen. Enlightened Law is all things that is wanted 
in the future. And Enlightenment, the rational creed of the 
Perfect Author of the Universe, Nature's Omnipresent em- 
bodied God, taught in rational churches or Universities, open 
to the whole people. 

Hercules Power. Come away I 

All the now politicians in America 
And Europe both together, do not merit 
The trifling notice of ephemeron minute 
Of the enlightened sovereign People, rapturously 
Aspiring to a vital, perfect Union, 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 71 

By enlightenment, and Enlightened Law and Government. 
The sovereigns of Republic, universal, 
Opulent, and resplendent. 



BOOK IV. 



CHAPTER I. 

The Scene is a Park. 

Enter Magnus Sham, wheeled in a chair. The numerous 
friends of the engrossing political chessman having com- 
bined to give an airing, as is their assiduous habit, to the 
unhappy magnate, now in a fast consumption. 

Sham 1. Mr. Magnus, how do you feel in the air ? 

Magnus Sham. 0, good and careful friends, 

Nothing can benefit me, while Hercules Power 
Is going about at large and unrestrained, 
Rapturing with so much of enlightened truth 
The sovereign voters of America; 
The people, or the laborers and artizans, 
That hitherto we cajoled of everything, 
But the hereditary right of labor, 
And mutely suffer wrong like adapted brutes, 
Of god-like sort. 

Sham 2. Let's try a caucus, Mr. Magnus. 



72 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE J OR, 

Magnus Sham. 0, caucus is all knocked on the head hy 
magnetic General Power ! 

[Magnus' face changes like milk soured by thunder. 
0, I'm sick, sick ! "Wheel me back to my bed. 

[Exeunt Magnus Sham, and company, the political chess- 
man wheeled out by his numerous sympathizing friends. 



CHAPTER II. 



Scene. — A room in Commander Power's house in the city of 
"Washington. Enter Hercules Power and his staff, Gen- 
erals Eagle, Trump, and Captain Diamond. 

Hercules Power. Now embark and make the tour of earth 
and announce at all the capitols of the world the Enlightened 
Law; the enlightened clergy, or the rational ministers of the 
raptured universities, or universal church of Nature's Author ; 
universal foundations secured to the Sovereign People in the 
united brotherhood, and Diamond Republic of all mankind, 
otherwise God's Kingdom of Heaven accomplished by En- 
lightened Law. 

[Enter General Braggadocio, introducing fillibusters 
with arms. 
Braggadocio. Thou enlightened warrior, General Power, 
Impress us ; we are at your masterly service. 

Hercules Power. Gentlemen, popular sovereignty can 
hardly come over a train of gunpowder ; I think, only by 



the world's captain. 73 

serene Enlightened Law, when all men, even the bigots and 
despots, will find it most infinitely the best thing for their 
interests. Gentlemen, 'tis great mistake looking abroad for 
prosperity. Conquest enough at home. Do not you all need 
a wife and a home apiece and young sprigs of humanity ? All 
these are the blessed fruits of peaceful conquests. 

While you are looking to Central America, you are neglect- 
ing the real genuine conquest at your own doors, the true 
conquest, the conquest according to Nature, which, when you 
adopt her perfect creed, will complete your happiness and 
everybody's else. Till then you live like a toad under a 
harrow, subject to hags of church, law, and state, with their 
crucifying creeds, who distract you with questions of no im- 
portance. 

Fillibuster. Yes, General, we see the one great question 
is Enlightened Law, inaugurating Enlightened Diamond 
Republic. 

Hercules Power. Gentlemen, when you know more of En- 
lightened Law, you will soon put rent-gfinding and tax 
grinding inventions under foot. 

I have received an invitation from their majesties, King 
Enlightened Labor and King Raptured Luck, to visit their 
United Kingdoms ; also an invitation from their universal 
Royal Highnesses, the Enlighteried Sovereign Citizens ; also 
an invitation from their Graces, some thousands of indepen- 
dent enlightened archbishops and bishops of the independent 
enlightened rational churches or universities in the anticipa- 
ted Sovereign Popular Republic of Europe, with enlightened 
America about to put herself at the head of the capital En- 
lightened Sovereign Popular United States of Mankind. 
So, gentlemen filibusters, remain at home and help to make 
one of the all-powerful united Brotherhood in the forthcom- 
ing Diamond Republic of all America, with the rest of the 
earth appended to her magnificent skirts. 



74 THE SOLDIER OE THE PEOPLE} OR, 

Hercules Power. No, gentlemen ! So soon as I have done 
here, I'm bound for London, thence to India and round the 
world, to elevate Enlightenment's resplendent standard in 
every capital, until it waves triumphant alike over the ruins 
of Cross and Crescent. Adieu, and, gentlemen, plant your- 
selves serenely down ; America is soon God's Kingdom of 
Heaven under Enlightened Law. 



CHAPTER III 



General Hercules Power's farewell of the citizens on the eve 
of his departure for Europe. Scene. — A public room, 
citizens are congregated about the enlightened Soldier. 

Citizen. But, General, when may we look for your return ? 

Hercules Power. I'm away to unfold Enlightenment's 
resplendent banner in Europe ; to rapture her population, and 
when that is done, and the united sovereign people united in 
a diamond republic for all the enlightened future, gentlemen, 
I shall return. I need no arms to route the tyrants of 
Europe and deliver the oppressed people, being I am omnipo- 
tent with God Almighty's weapons, Enlightenment and con- 
sequent power and unity. 

Citizen. Hurrah, Commander Power ! 
Thou art the hero to inspire the weak, 
And shivering with a strong magnetic faith, 
And rapturous supernal brotherly confidence. 

Hercules Power. I have sent a messenger with dispatches 
to all the heads of Europe of the utmost moment, demanding 
them why they should not accept Enlightenment and all its 






the world's captain. 75 

glorious issues of law and government. Enlightenment and 
Enlightened Law, achieving the completest conquest, never 
leave an enemy to harrass the rear. 

Gen. Eagle. Ay, General Power, you're going on a long 
conquest round the world ; and, since you have no army to 
compel, you must needs do all by Enlightenment 

Hercules Power. Enlightenment will conquer the world, 
and all happily and rapturously as it should be ; magnetically 
form it into one harmonious diamond unit, a feat that in- 
numerable Alexanders, Caesars and Napoleons have tried to 
do and had to give up in haggard despair. Adieu, good 
citizens. 

Citizens. Adieu, General! 

[Upon that Hercules Power departs for the voyage 
to Europe, attended by several devoted friends. 

1st Citizen. Where then will be national jealousies ? 

2d Citizen. Where then the bloody squabbles of the 
Powers, 
And mighty slaughter of the unhappy people ? 

1st Citizen. General Power being gone to liberate Europe, 
and merge her, with America, all the world, into one Dia- 
mond Republic, what then ? 

2d Citizen. No more need of Ambassadors 1 

3d Citizen. Hardly any need of Congress J 

1st Citizen. Nor of Senate ! 

1st Politician. I shiver as at sudden mortal pit 
Beneath me opened. 

2d Politician. It gives us all the ague fit, truly. 

3d Politician. We'll lose our three thousand dollars mile- 
age. 

[Enter Citizens, meeting and congratulating.] 

Gen. Eagle. Bravo, citizens, General Power'jB off to Eu- 



76 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE J OK, 

rope, by Electric Rapture, to totally liquidate the frigid Pow- 
ers ; by talismauic Enlightenment, to break every tyrant 
chain, and magnetize the enlightened world into the Enlight- 
ened Diamond Republic or a Universal, United Brother- 
hood. 

1st Citizen. Bravo, Diamond America soon to be ! 

2d Citizen. Bravo, anticipated Diamond Europe too ! 

3d Citizen. Bravo ! 

Mankind a unit, all the future brilliant 
And raptured perfect like the diamond ! 

[Senators and Representatives gather in an anxious 
knot and whisper each other. 

Politicians. See the people, now enlightened as to their 
inviolate natural rights, already drop quite away, no more 
entitling as Honorable Representatives. 

1st Citizen. Americans are become like one all-poweTful 
raptured Emperor, with determination united and onward 
like enlightened planet, through unending heaven. 

2d Citizen. Bravo, Enlightenment ! 

3d Citizen. Bravo, fruit of enlightenment, Enlightened 
Law, that roots everybody, raptures everybody, prospers 
everybody ; in brief, transmutes mankind all like the diamond 
complete, in a universal united brotherhood, or vital repub- 
lic of the globe. 

Enter Politicians. 

1st Politician. "What's the excitement here ? 

Gen. Eagle. you see all glorious America united by en- 
lightenment, resuming their sovereign prerogative, the raptur- 
ed citizens are about to vote God of nature's rational, straight- 
forward, Enlightened Law, accomplishing the complete Dia- 
mond Republic, or United Brotherhood of all Mankind. 

1st Politician. You're a good deal flighty I think, sir ! 



the world's captain. 77 

Gen. Eagle. Ay. gentlemen of Congress, were not that a 
perfect conquest of Enlightenment ? 

1st Politician. What ? 

Gen. Eagle. that's the heauty of Enlightenment, that 
like the sun is sufficient for the whole planet, and no more 
need of Senate, or any other self-interested legislative hody 
whatever in all the future, completely raptured like a star or 
one of God's own perfect orbs. 

1st Politician. Your Enlightened Law is very beautiful, 
but I do not think it can supersede the capitol and the halls 
of legislature ! 

Gen. Eagle. The capitol ! it is Heaven ! The legislature ! 
it is Enlightened Law, and all the laws of the highest good 
which do not conflict with the same. And, if General Power 
brings over Europe to Enlightened Law, then begins the 
United Brotherhood and universal Diamond Republic ; then 
is there an end to all capitols but heaven, with the light and 
the love of God everlastingly attracting together all the 
raptured earth. When you hear of General Power again, the 
world's raptured; all the hitherto great Powers, merged 
among the Enlightened Sovereign Citizens, and Enlightened 
Government with Honorary Presidents of public administra- 
tion, self-supporting, inaugurated as a natural consequence of 
Enlightened Law in rapturous operation, creating every one 
in fortune more or less. Yet a few years, no more Phari- 
saic shops; no more Rome's contemptuous pomp, but the 
universal Diamond Republic all throughout, and the count- 
less opulent citizens all identical through the triumph of En- 
lightenment and Enlightened Law, the Key of God's King- 
dom of Heaven. 



78 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

CHAPTEE IV. 

The Scene is a Wharf. 

Magnus Sham is seated in a weighing machine, having 
himself weighed. 

Magnus Sham. Weigh me again ; I can't believe I've 
lost so much capital weight ! How much do I weigh ? 

[Magnus anxiously interrogates the weighing-ma- 
chine man. 

Sham No. 1. What's Mr. Magnus' weight ? 

Weighing- Mach. Man. Most awful 1 Five hundred and 
fifty pounds, a quarter of a ton. Awful ! Perfectly awful I 

Magnus Sham. 0, my friends, I'm reduced a hundred 
pounds. 

Sham No. 1. A hundred pounds already ? 

Magnus Sham. Ay ! the miscreant Power, opposing 
me ! 

Sham No. 1. the wretch, drawing off the people, and 
exploding us. 

Magnus Sham. 0, I'm in a dreadful decline ! 
the inauspicious villain, Power, 
Who, with exalting public sentiment, 
Has whiffed away large portion of my friends ; 
And that is not the worst, reduced my weight 
A hundred and odd pounds ! 

Sham No. 1. the plagued villain, to blow so malignant 
towards us. 

Magnus Sham. I'll soon be all over as haggard a piece 
as the Labrador coast. 



the world's captain. 79 

[Here enter General Power with Queen Justitia, and 
attendants, Captain Diamond and seamen. 

Capt. Diamond. The yacht has her steam up, and all's 
ready for the rapturous start on enlightened tour of earth. 
Queen Justitia. Farewell, General ! 

[Hercules Power and Justitia shake hands. 

Seamen. Ho, for Europe ! 

Gen. Power. With a ship load of Enlightened Law Books 
for the sovereign citizens. Ho, for London, thence to India, 
and round the world ! To elevate Enlightenment's stand- 
ard in every capitol, till it waves triumphant 

Queen Justitia. Stop ! Who are these in America who 
oppose Enlightenment on the magnetic threshold ? 

[Magnus Sham's friends draw revolvers and howie 
knives, and point them at General Power. 

Sham's Friends. Die, upstart ! 

Seditious enlightener of the people 1 

[The same moment Young men of the Army of the 
Sun start forth, and level their weapons at Magnus' 
friends. 

Young Men. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ! 

1st Young man. So Sham and company, political chess- 
men, drovers, and butchers of the people, are even now 
touched to the quick. 

Justitia. So, Mr. Magnus and Company are reduced to 
such desperate straits they must essay serpent arts and tiger 
stratagems of springing out of an ambush upon a magnani- 
mous, unsuspecting enemy. 

[Enter Old Time, leapiug like a cavalier on the criti- 
cal scene of action. 



80 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 

Old Time. But it will not do, Magnus, you shall capitu- 
late to me yet. Beware the dreadful edge of 

[Magnus and friends start hack aghast as several 
young men bear in and present. 
Magnus. ! 
Old Time. Time's scythe ! 

[Magnus' friends drop their weapons in despair, and 
the young soldiers of the Sun gallantly lower 
theirs thereupon. 

Gen. Power. I am away to liberate Europe by Enlight- 
enment. Diamond young men of America, during my ab- 
sence, ply the political chessman and his numerous friends 
with quotations from Enlightened Law Book, rapturing you 
and them together. Adieu ! 

[Exeunt Hercules Power, Queen Justitia, and other 
Queens; Captain Diamond and seamen, followed 
by Old Time and Young men. 

[Thereupon enter a distracted man.] 

Magnus. Engineer, what's the meaning of your being 
here, and away from your important charge ! 

Distracted Man. The boiler, sir ! 

Magnus. Well, get steam up, and go ahead, for, truly, 
never was occasion of more pressing emergence. 

Distracted Man. 0, Mr. Magnus, your capital manufac- 
turing works, with so much steam up, threaten to be blown 
sky-high. 

Magnus. Back, and let off the steam ! 

Distracted Man. I durstn't; the valve won't open, and a 
devil of a fire roaring beneath. 

Sham No. 1. Nothing for it but collapse of the flue, or 
tee-total explosion. [Tearing his hair. 






THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 81 

Sham No. 2. 0, Magnus, how calamities thicken. 

[Enter several flying people. 
Magnus Sham. Alack, I'm no match for popular magnet, 
General Power ! 

[Enter more flying people vociferating 
Flying People. Run ! run ! run ! for your lives, run ! 
Magnus Sham. my works, my works ! all my political 
material and hitherto capital stock ahout to be annihilated ! 
0! 0! 

[Great explosion heard. Timbers fly about in every 
direction. Magnus and Company, and their nu- 
merous friends, first prostrated by the shock, after 
a moment, gather themselves up and take to their 
heels. 



CHAPTER V. 
Scene. — A park. 



Enter Magnus Sham and Company and their numerous 
friends, airing and caressing Magnus. 

Magnus Sham. friends 1 

Gone are another hundred darling pounds of 
My capital weight ! 

Sham No. 1. High time we did bethink how to stop this 
rapid consumption in you, our back- bone and marrow, Mr. 
Magnus. 

Magnus Sham. Friends, save me, if it be possible, from 
the haggard fate that threatens. 



tZ THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

[Elevating his person imploringly from his dying 
pillow, and after an anxious observation around, 
dropping himself once more prone in the chair. 

[Enter Old Time, seeming grim enough as with 
portentuous hourglass he confronts the Shams of 
America, and representatives of the Shams of 
Europe. 

1st Sham. Sir, who are you that wears so sharp a face ? 

Old Time. Time, Time, Time, that hath patiently waited 
the matter of six thousand years for ye to put things right 
and straight. 

2d Sham. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ! 

Old Time. Now, lo, Enlightenment has come to ravish 
and unite mankind, and merge you with the Sovereign People 
in the Diamond Future. 

1st Sham. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ! 
Mr. Time, we feel pretty secure yet. 

Old Time. Out of the way ! I'm Time, now bent to in- 
augurate the Enlightened Millennium that ends you, capital 
humbugs and shams. 

All the Shams. Ends us ! 

Old Time. Ay, out of the way ! Out of the raptured 
way of the Lord of Enlightenment I 

All the Shams. We'll not out of the way, sir ! 

Old Time. You'll not ? Enlightenment ravishing almighty 
heaven and unity, will put you though. Out of the way of 
genial Enlightenment, you frigid hummocks, you exorbitant 
shams, out of the way ! I'm Time, all-powerful herald of 
Enlightenment ! Out of the raptured way of enlightened 
future. •» 

All the Shams. We'll not out of the way, sir I 

Old Time. You'll not, eh ? My scythe, ho ! 



the world's captain. 83 

[Exeunt young men and veterans to procure Time's 
scythe. 

[Exorbitant Shams come together in a knot and 
confer. 

Old Time. Wind up the ages of barbarianism, whether 
the abhorred and mediaeval , or the now modern refined, hid- 
den under Pharisaic masks. 

Citizens. Capital, Old Time ! 

Old Time. Peal the knell of anthropophagous tyrants, 
whether of Europe or America ! 

Citizens. capital, Old Time ! 

Old Time. Inaugurate the perfect diamond millennium, 
enlightenment for all the raptured future of the world 1 Out 
of the way, out of the raptured way, of the enlightened and 
united Sovereign People ! 

[Exorbitant Shams confer in a knot. 
All the Shams. "We'll not out of the way, sir I 

[Re-enter Veterans of the Army of the Sun with 
Time's scythe. 

Young Men Sf Veterans. Here's your scythe; and 
God speed the cause of Enlightenment and the Sovereign 
People united in a Diamond Republic ! 

Old Time. He will speed it 1 Out of the way ! 
Muttering Powers, out of the raptured view 
Of Enlightenment, omnipotent Lord of Heaven ! 

[Old Time, in a most extraordinary determined 
phrenzy, his scythe revolving at a terrific rate, pur- 
sues the Shams. 

Old Time. Despair, cutthroats of trade, business and pop- 
ulation. Despair ! despair ! 



84 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

[Enter Mr. Time, and Veterans of the Army of the 
Sun of the Diamond Republic. 

Veterans. 0, Old Mr. Time, spare yourself ! 

Old Time. Despair, exorbitant tax-grinding partizans ! 
The sovereign citizens are soon by Enlightened Law united 
under honorary enlightened public administration self-sup- 
porting. 

Veterans. 0, dear Time, you'll kill yourself in your too 
fervent zeal to slaughter all opposing Shams, and inaugurate 
diamond millennium ! 

[Bogus Powers and Legislators fly over the stage 
pursued by avenging Time, and exeunt screaming. 
Presently re-enter bogus Powers and Legislators 
flying across the stage. Re-enter Time hewing 
them down with his scythe. Bogus Powers and 
Legislators slain by Times's scythe, fall down 
right and left. 

All the Shams. 0, Mr. Time ! Mr. Time ! 

Old Time. Despair, George's heirs in America ! Inven- 
tion-mongers, grace-mongers, nation-mongers, all despair ! 

All the Shams. mercy ! mercy ! 

Old Time. Despair, every and all inhuman stranglers of 
the Lord's Paradise, which comes by Enlightened Law. 
Despair ! despair ! despair ! Enlightenment, like God's 
archangel, annihilates you. 

[Enter old "Wives of Inventions.] 

Wives of Inventions. the havoc ! the havoc ! 
Made of our mothers and grandmothers. 

[They elevate their hands in horror, but seeing Old 
Time's determined attitude, start across the stage 
in distracted flight. 



the world's captain. 85 

Wives of Inventions. 0, Mr. Time, have mercy ! 

Old Time. Despair, judgment conjurers, creatures of hag- 
gard legislatures, Phairsaic shops, at war with Enlightened 
Law, inaugurating heaven and unity. 

Wives of Inventions. good Mr. Time, have mercy! 

Old Time. Despair! despair! despair! 
Every unnatural creature of exorbitance 
Beneath God's rapt enlightened heavens. 

[Old Time sweeps at them with his scythe. Old 
Wives of Inventions save themselves by immedi- 
ately falling prostrate. 

ls£ Citizen. Stop, Old Time ! 

Id Citizen. You'll kill yourself, my old fellow, in your too 
fervent zeal to serve the enlightened people, now entirely 
sovereign and united 

2>d Citizen. A diamond unit like the omnipotent planet ! 

Old Time. They'd slander me, and lay so much blame on 
me, they that made this world an entirely haggard wilder- 
ness, a notorious province of the Prince of Darkness. 

1st Citizen. Good ! you'll be young Mr. Time again, 
though reported to be so old now. 

Old Time. Old ! I'm young Time ! I have always been 
young Time. I tell the congregation of devils, that I, Time, 
more impregnable than immemorial mountains and landmarks 
of ages, their end is come ! Henceforth by Enlightened 
Law, the earth is God's raptured Kingdom of Heaven for all 
the Enlightened Future. 

[Old Time here spies Magnus Sham and Company, 
and his countenance grows exceeding trenchant, 
and he elevates his scythe. Magnus Sham and 
Company draw themselves up into the smallest 
possible compass. 



86 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OE, 

Old Time. Judgment is gone forth ! 

Magnus Sham. 0, Mr. Time, have mercy 

Old Time. I'm not pursuing unfortunate broken men into 
the earth, as your tax-maintained creatures, your courts and 
your sheriffs. — No, no ! no ! But judgment is gone forth 
against all shams in law and government. 

Magnus Sham. That's us ! 

Old Time. Here's at you ! 

All the Shams. 0, Mr. Time, Mr. Time ! 

[Old Time pursues Magnus Sham and Company with 
scythe. 

Old Time. Merge with the Sovereign People ! Acknow- 
ledge Enlightened Law, inaugurating a Diamond Union of 
Mankind. 

Magnus and Company. Ay ! ay ! ay ! we shall 

Citizens. See at Old Time, with rapturous revolutions of 
his enlightened scythe, hewing away at Magnus and every 
and all other exorbitant shams. 



BOOK V. 



CHAPTER I 

The Scene is a sidewalk before a provision store. 

Enter Gog and Magog, the latter having hold of the former, 
whilst vociferous huzzas are heard outside. 

Lord Magog. Gog, thou art a desperate coward, a treach- 
erous support as water to a man in emergence. 



the world's captain. 87 

[Vociferous huzzas continue to be heard without. 

Lord Gog. Let go, Magog ! Let go, otherwise, let us 
away. 

Lord Magog. Wilt thou run ? 

Lord Gog. O all's over with me, if I don't. 

Lord Magog. Look, Gog ! if thou run'st, this rapier shall 
open sudden daylight into thy confounded, cowardly and 
shivering carcass. 

[Enter Raptured Citizens.] 

1st Citizen. Hurrah, the next news will be 
Europe with America's raptured away 
By Enlightened Law, to unity, happiness, liberty. 

[Gog, after desperate struggles with Magog, breaks 
away and dashes in zig-zag fashion across the stage 
seeking a hiding-place. 

[Enter more Raptured Citizens.] 

2d Citizen. Hurrah ! General Power has returned from 
his enlightened conquering tour around the world. 

3d Citizen. Hurrah ! Old Europe's raptured 
By Enlightened Law into united Brotherhood 
With America. 

2d Citizen. Come away, gentlemen, and witness the in- 
stallation of Honorary President Diamond. 

[Exeunt Raptured Citizens. 

[Enter a messenger from Europe.] 

Messenger. Hail, Lord Magog 1 

Lord Magog. How now, what untoward spur has induced 
you to cross the Atlantic, hither ? 

[Gog, under continued panic of cowardice, shoves his 



88 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OK, 

head among sacks of flour to secure himself a suit- 
able concealment. 

Gog, thou coward ! 
News from Europe ! News from Europe ! 

Lord Gog. that man with the terrible aspect of 
Hyperborean bear 1 

[Gog, disappointed of covert among the sacks of flour, 
dashes across the stage and dives into the midst of 
a bale of straw, and covers himself up. 

Messenger. Europe's no more Europe, Lord Magog ! 
Lord Magog. Nor is anybody any more himself, I think. — 
In a moment, sir. 

[Magog throws the straw off Gog, who, finding him- 
self discovered, darts off like an alligator betwixt 
Magog's legs, precipitating that cumbrous giant 
backward upon the stage. Then, while Magog is 
sprawling, Gog dives inside an open barrel that has 
had lampblack in it. 

Lord Magog. that cursed unfortunate coward Gog ! 
He runs away and shakes down everybody like an earthquake. 
What were you saying ? Europe's no more ■ 

Messenger. Europe's no more Europe but in title page I 

Lord Magog. What, revolutionized throughout ? 

Messenger. Perfectly ! All raptured, as they say 
Up in the heaven, and realm almighty. 

Lord Magog. The Emperor, my master, what of him ? 

Messenger. No more an Emperor in the diamond sphere ! 

Lord Magog. What? 

Messenger. Magogland's ruler that was, 
Merged with the august sovereign citizens in business. 

Lord Magog. What, so revolutionized ? 



the world's captain. 89 

[Man comes out of his store ; and, turning the lamp- 
black barrel upside down, dumps wriggling Gog on 
the ground. 
Messenger. You would not know Europe, now all a rapt 
unit like the diamond. 

Lord Magog. How has it fared with the heads of Europe, 
the hitherto gods ? 

Messenger. The gentleman prone in the dirt there is the 
capital figure of our hitherto gods of Europe. 

[Magog strikes his temple and exclaims — 

Lord Magog. O the Emperor, my august master ! 
The great Powers, overtaken with a mortal crisis, d'ye say ? 

Messenger. All in contortions like their hitherto subjects. 

Lord Magog. Rather like that miserable fellow, Gog ! 

Lord Gog. Help ! the nails, the nails ! 
I lose noble blood, Magog ! Help ! 

I'm impaled. the nails 1 call a doctor to caulk the leaks 
with lint and plaster I Call a surgeon, in heaven's name ! 

Lord Magog. We would, but thy rotten carcass of a hull 
wouldn't repay the caulking. Call surgeon to thee ? No, 
rather die like a worthless, miserable coward ; a burthensome 
and execrably onerous paltroon. 

Lord Gog. As much account is my life to me as yours to 
you. 

Lord Magog. Go to ! No comparison between us. I'm 
a hero and the world's adored. You're a snipe. I won't any 
longer speak to you, coward Gog ! 
Go on, messenger, though easy to prophecy 
The summary remainder. 

Messenger. Your estates 

Lord Magog. Parcelled forth 'mongst eager settlers ? 

Messenger. Ay ! all rent in future to buy the property. 
That's the raptured law, as they say. 



90 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 

Lord Magog. Robbery ! robbery ! robbery ! 

Messenger. For your property, though, they've charged 
me here with the first payment ; (offers Magog a bag of 
money) only three more payments, and the tenants are free- 
holders, sovereign independent citizens of Heaven's kingdom, 
as they say, 

Lord Magog. 0, is it thus Enlightenment treats the 
great land-holder ? 

Messenger. Ay, sir. 

Lord Magog. A plague on Enlightenment. All very 
rapturous for the people, I dare say. But particular cholera 
morbus to Dukes, Lords, and Barons. 

Messenger. Magogland is come over to America. 

Lord Magog. What, the Emperor emigrated thither ? 
Come, seek him. Gog, thou opprobrious coward and das- 
tardly eye-sore, don't ye follow me. I'll slay ye, if ye do fol- 
low my noble footsteps, to commit me before our august 
master. If ye follow me, die ye shall, so. 

[Magog shows Gog how he will put an end to him by 
sticking his rapier through a fire-screen. Then 
exeunt Magog and Messenger. 

Lord Gog. Magogland come over to America ! And shall 
I be forbid to see and glory in so extraordinary wonder ? 
No ! though I'm reputed a coward, I shall see the emigrant 
ex-emperor; I'll throw myself at his majesty's worshipful 
feet, and implore his protection against Magog, villainous 
bully! 

[Enter men and boys who laugh and make sport of 
Gog, who scrambles to his straggling feet and 
draws his sword, after an extraordinary effort. 

Here's money ! men and boys, marshal my heroic way ! 






the wobld's captain. 93 

Hang me, if I don't take down the bravery of Magog. For- 
ward ! March ! 

[Men and boys form in line. Exeunt Gog, preceded 
and followed by men and boys in martial array. 



CHAPTER II. 



Enter Citizens meeting citizens. 

1st Citizen. Great news, hurrah ! Great news ! 

Id Citizen. Speak ! what are they ? 

1st Citizen. Europe's raptured bodily up ! 

2c? Citizen. Bravo ! 

1st Citizen. Purged complete 
Of crafty Powers, her oppressors. 

2d Citizen. See already the capital fruit of Enlightened 
Law, heavenly unity, harmnoy, happiness and liberty. 

1st Citizen. What an immediate rapturous contrast from 
State Inventions, derived of crafty Csesars and Saints ; gotten 
up to divide and enslave the Peoples ; split them in warring 
nations, at mercy of great Powers, the exorbitant confeder- 
ates of Satan. 

Bd Citizen. America's become an all-powerful raptured 
magnet. 

1st Citizen. Europe another ! 

2c? Citizen. To mutually elevate and sustain each other, 
like eternally raptured spheres. Enlightenment and its issues 
of glorious perfectly Enlightened Law and Government, and 



92 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

the Diamond [Republic ! No other question was worthy of 
America, of Europe, and of all enlightened mankind. 

1st Citizen. What fools we were hitherto to he cajoled by 
the beggarmen of office. 

Enter Politicians. 
1st Politician. What fools we were to hitherto run for 
offices, and there was the rapt door of the Kingdom of Hea- 
ven standing wide open for us to individually enter and be 
more infinitely opulent and happy than Solomon in his palace. 
Enter jubilant citizens on the right. 
Jubilant Citizens. The North's raptured. 

[Enter on the left more jubilant citizens greeting the 
others. 
2d Group of Jubilant Citizens. Raptured the South ! 

[Enter more jubilant citizens on the right. 
3d Group of Jubilant Citizens. The East's raptured ! 

[Enter on the left more jubilant citizens greeting the 
others. 
Uk Group of Jubilant Citizens. Raptured the West ! 
1st Citizen. Hurrah, all raptured in one diamond unit 
Like omnipotent onward planet. 
Hurrah 1 Hurrah ! 

2d Citizen. Bravo ! The People enlightened and united 
and entirely sovereign thereupon, are finally come to the 
possession and capital use of their own, namely, universal 
opulence and glorious perfect liberty, realized by Enlighten- 
ed Law, rooting all the people to become their own land- 
lords. 

3d Citizen. The hitherto haggard earth, transported to 
the stars, or more correctly, into the omnipotent arms of God, 
omnipresent perfection, shall henceforth enjoy a future un- 
ending, rapturous and ecstatic as heaven. 



the world's captain. 93 

2d Politician. Enlightenment merges us forever with, the 
other Sovereign Citizens. We're no where in the future, 
except we embrace the universal sphere of prosperous trade 
and commerce. 

1st Citizen. All the enlightened people, all the world 
Become one raptured unit like the diamond. 
Exorbitant Government necessarily dried up. 

1st Citizen. Wouldn't you call this Diamond America 
now? 

2d Citizen. See at length the capital fruit of Enlighten- 
ment, the heavenly unity of the Sovereign People. 

Zd Citizen. A feat that your Caesars never could accomplish, 
who reared frozen thrones on the people's frantic distraction, 
created by their own mountainous oppression. 



CHAPTER III 



The Scene is a Park adjoining Hercules Power's House, in 
the garden of which Donald and bis friends are enjoying 
a holiday. 

Donald. Dance, citizens ! 

1st Citizen. Ay, we will ; kick up heels, join hands, citi- 
zens, all dance a jig. 

[The citizens join hands, and dance an original reel, 
singing the following « 

SONG. 

Dance ! dance ! dance ! 
Citizens 



94 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 

Dance ! dance ! dance I 
Being we are e'en 
Bavished unto 
Divine Unity, 
Bipe perfection, 
By Heaven's capital Queen. 
Dance ! dance I dance ! 
Citizens ! 
Sing and dance, 
Both at once ! 
Dance ! dance ! dance ! dance ! 
Both sing and dance ! 

[Enter Young men of the Army of the Sun.] 

1st Young Man. Glorious result of the Queen of Heaven's 
successful message hy her proxy Justitia. 

1st Citizen. "What, sir ? 

1st Young man. All the notorious unprofitahle creatures, 
hitherto the plague of our glorious country, despots, bigots, 
hypocrites, Pharisees, including the famous lobby, are either 
dead, or migrating, and like reptiles making desperate steps 
for permanent winter-quarters in rubbish holes and thicket 
coverts. 

The raptured Citizens then sing the following 

SONG. 

Glory ! glory ! glory ! 

We are every one 
Created sovereign free, 

By heaven's liberal queen. 
Glory ! glory ! glory 1 



the world's captain. 95 

Divine Enlightenment, ravishing diamond law, 

Glory ! glory ! glory ! 

God-like Enlightenment consummating human liberty. 

1st Citizen. Stand aside ! Lo, the moribund Lobby ! 

[Hereon enter at the back of the park where it ad- 
joins the garden, the wolves, vultures, and vam- 
pires of the lobby. They look around in blank 
despair at the prospect of Enlightened Government, 
or self-supporting administration, and begin howl- 
ing dismally. 
1st Lobbyman. Howl ! howl ! howl I forever 
Departed is the glory of the lobby 1 
2d Lobbyman. O ! 01 ! ! 
3c? Lobbyman. Drear, drear, drear, 

Is all our future as Siberia, 
Incarcerated in frigid Arctic horror. 

[Lobby vultures fall down of exhaustion. 

Donald. What, and have the wolves given it up ? it is 
truly a glorious millennium of trade, business, population and 
everything else, when wolves do fail of heart and prospect. 'Tis 
world reconciled in enlightened policy for all the glorious 
future. 

1st Lobbyman. Killed ! killed ! killed ! 

2d Lobbyman. The field we did monopolize turned into a 
rapturous University. 

Donald. Ay, the gigantic shams, the idea whereof was 
borrowed of exorbitant Rome, have been sold off by General 
Auction and his industrious assistants. 

[More lobby vultures drop down of famine. 

1st Citizen. wonderful millennium ! choice Paradise of 
humanity, cleared of all wolves and lacerating pursuers of 



96 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE J OR, 

the unfortunate, the rapturous abode of humanity in all forth- 
coming diamond time. 

2d Citizen. It was hitherto under George's heirs, persecute 
every unfortunate man into the earth ; now the policy is to 
rapture everybody, men and women alike, to a foundation by 
the rent, buying the property under Enlightened Law. 

1st Citizen. truly, a most wonderful millennium of 
omnipresent glory, Nature's own peerless empire, God's un- 
equalled kingdom, the Diamond Republic of all mankind. 

[Enter Justitia, Queen of Heaven's representative, 
her train of sovereign queens, with President Dia- 
mond, Director Diamond, Minister Diamond and 
others, followed by General Hercules Power and 
his intimate friends. 

Justitia. what a lamentable heap of slain 1 

Pres. Diamond. Ay, madam, but in the battle of Enlight- 
enment, however great the number of dead may be, it is always 
po much the better, for none die of enlightenment but the 
deadly hypocritical creatures of whom the world cannot too 
eoon be rid. 

Justitia. But what savage wilderness has been depopulated 
to bring together such a quantity of strange and forbidding 
creatures ? 

Pres. Diamond. Glorious madam, the forests of legislature, 
having been invaded by Enlightenment, their original covert 
and predatory tenants, reduced to the last necessity of hun- 
ger, are here driven to devour themselves. 

Hercules Power. To be plain, madam, under whose en- 
lightened auspices the Diamond Republic has been inau- 
gurated, the world raptured out of hereditary abyss, even up 
to the perfect meridian, these prostrate carcasses are the dead 
(and expiring wolves, vultures and vampires of the notorious 
Lobby. 



the world's captain. 97 

Justitia. Ho, Queens of the Diamond Republic ! Ho, com© 
hither, electrify the enemy's dead, so rapture may abound 
on all hands 1 

1st Queen. How, madam ? 

Tustitia. Revive them, as you instinctively know how, by 
tender womanly ministrations. 

President Diamond. Also, launch forth on the prospects 
of business men, of authors and inventors, and of everybody, 
indeed, in the meridian Diamond Republic. 

1st Queen. Ho, rise up, you heart sick, 
Or else be reprobated as coward 1 

2d Queen. Merchants, hitherto but a better sort of pirates, 
now are real imperial, with revenues exceeding exorbitant 
government, passed away. 

3d Queen. Ho I rise up ! capital need for everybody in 
the vital Republic of trade and population. Ho, rise up 1 

1st Queen. Ho, arise, you dead and despairing cowards ; 
now is the diamond millennium, the time for complete pros- 
pects for everybody. Ho, rise up 1 arise ! 

[The former wolves, vultures, and vampires start in a 
moment to their feet. In another moment they 
divest themselves of their characteristic garb. 

Justitia. Bring forth the crowns and the royal robes, such 
as are worn by the United Brotherhood, and let the Queens 
of the Diamond Republic attend the wounded. 

[Enter Queens with crowns and robes of state.] 

1st Ex-Lobbyman. Ineffable madam, we are entirely 
drawn over by your gracious sovereign manner. 

2d Ez-Lobbyman, O Queen of Heaven, even we, too, 
henceforth 
Acknowledge thee the Queen of Earth ! 

1st Ex-Lobbymau. O madam, what a boundless, prosperous 
concourse in thy train ! 



98 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OR, 

Justitia. All progressing together by Enlightened Law 
inaugurating social unity. 

1st Queen. "What have you to say, to warrant the honor 
of being accepted among the Sovereign United Citizens ? 

1st Ez-Lobbyman. Forgive us, and we'll live a quiet, 
True, honest life ; no more intrigue and plot 
Against the sovereign estate of the people. 

[Ex-Lobbymen then bow to the Queen of Heaven's 
proxy. Queens of the Diamond Republic forth- 
with invest them with royal robes and crowns of 
sovereignty. 
We're merged forever with the raptured people. 

2d Ez-Lobbyman. Now for the marriages, that, like the 
rapturous spring-time, bring new hope to the world. 

1st Ez-Lobbyman. Ay, the marriages ! the spurs of trade, 
as well as the mother of population. 

President Diamond. I, William Diamond, do lead Justi- 
tia to the enlightened altar. 

Justitia. I entirely glory in Mr. Diamond. 

[Exeunt President William Diamond and Justitia. 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Scene is another part of the public park, adjoining am- 
bassador Magog's mansion. 

Enter the late emperor of Magogland, muffled up in a cloak, 
surrounded by a promiscuous retinue, Magog following. 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 99 

Ex-emperor of Magogland. I'll see nobody until we get 
to Great Bear Lake. Lead on ! 

Attendants. Ho, for Great Bear Lake ! 

Lord Magog. dear me, I'm Magog, your majesty's late 
ambassador at Wasbington. 

Gentleman. Away, Magog ! Your master's not in tbe 
humor to speak. 

[Magogland throws off disguise, Magog embraces 
his knees. 

Ex-emperor of Magogland. We had resolved not to exhi- 
bit us. [Looks round and surveys. 
wbat a bright blue rapturous heaven spans 
America ; what a nervous atmosphere 
Here braces us like the infant Hercules ! 

[Enter Gog followed and preceded by file of giggling 
asses of men and boys. 
What's all this twittering procession ? Who's the giant 
in the inglorious midst ? 

Lord Magog. Gog, the ambassador from Gogland ! Gog, 
thou dastard, didn't I threaten thee with death if thou cam'st 
after, to disgrace me in presence of his majesty. 

Lord Gog. Your majesty, I entreat the august aegis of 
your protection against the villain Magog, a hectoring bully, 
for whom it is impossible to live in gentlemanly dignity. 

Magog. Dastard ! 

Thine own coward conscience like a heap of water conjures 
up shapes of terror. 

[Magog strikes him. Gog dashing madly off, rushes 
between Magog's legs and throws the latter giant 
down on the stage. 

Ex-emperor of Magogland. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ! 



100 THE SOLDIER Of THE PEOPLE; OB, 

Magog. Hang Gog ! 

[Scrambles on his feet again. 

Ex-emperor of Magogland. Ay, he has powdered you 
liberally with flour and lampblack. 

Magog. 0, pardon, your majesty 1 Water, soap, and tow- 
els, ho ! In heaven's name ! call a barber, ho ! 

[Lord Magog, blinded by the liberal shower of flour 
and lampblack, is led aside to perform the needed 
ablutions. 

Gentlemen. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ! never mind, your 
majesty. If we've lost all in Europe, we shall not want for 
capital sport in America ! 

Ex- Emperor of Magogland. No, nor for Fortune either ! 
Here is her admirable chief disposer. 

[Thereupon enter Commander General Hercules 
Power, escorting the Queen of Heaven's represen- 
tative, Justitia, whom he introduces to the Ex- 
Emperor of Magogland. 

Ex-Emperor. Who's this more dazzling 

Than any creature I did e'er see yet 
In pageant Europe ? 

Hercules Power, The Queen genius of the Diamond Re- 
public of trade, business and population. 

Ex-Emperor. Who ? 

Hercules Power. The lady, one of the queens of Califor- 
nia, upon whom fell the rapturous lot to represent the Queen 
of Heaven in the all-enlightened celebration of the diamond 
millennium, at Washington. 

Ex-Emperor. Admirable lady, miracle of glory ! 
Exquisite beauty, and utility ! 
Rapturous exemplar of the diamond time ! 



THE WORLD'S CAPTAIN. 101 

[Enter a vociferous Nurse with a crying baby, in her 
arms. 

Nurse. Good news ! good news ! good news ! 0, Mr. 
Magog ! look here, your lady has presented you with a beau- 
tiful boy, the laughing image of yourself. 

[Magog takes the baby and hugs it. 

Magog. A boy, at last ! 0, heavenly Father of all ; thou 
alone knowest the thrilling joy of a father in first pressing 
his offspring to his bosom. 

Ex-Emperor. How is this, barren for so many weary years, 
and now pregnant like heaven, all at once ? 

Magog. The marvellous Millennium has had something 
to do with it. 

Nurse. Lord Magog, at least, I know your lady was cured 
of her sterility by a receipt she had of 

Magog. Queen Justitia ! 

Nurse. Ay, sir. 

Magog. thou glorious representative of a Queen of 
Heaven, all pregnant genius of the populous millennium, 
henceforth number Magog among thy adorers. 

No more rent-grinding giant, but a man j 
Yea, and a father led by affection, 
Like patriarch in the midst of innumerable flock 
Of children, grandchildren, and relations. 

Justitia. Truly, Lord Magog shall have no reason to regret 
millennium. 

Magog. glorious millennium ! 

[Exit first Nurse with first baby. Enter another 
Nurs9 bearing another baby. 

2c? Nurse. 0, Mr. Magog, Mr. Magog ! another present 
from your lady. 

Magog. What, another boy? 



102 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OE, 

2d Nurse. Another miniature of yourself; see a choice 
picture of your august corporation, Lord Magog. 

Magog. Come to my hosom, cherub, begotten of a giant ! 

[Hugs baby. 

Justitia. Welcome, and room for endless multitude more 
in the promising millennium. 

Magog. madam ! glorious madam ! Count me among 
thy partisans as everybody of all the earth, in the enlighten- 
ed raptured future. 

[Exit second Nurse with second baby. Enter a third 
Nurse bearing a third baby 

3d Nurse. Heyday ! Babies are coming up, like mush- 
rooms, with a rush ! Here, Mr. Magog ! 

Magog. What, another boy ? 

3d Nurse. Lord Magog, a bountiful present of another 
bouncing boy from your loving lady. 

Magog. More glory for Magog ! Hurrah ! How is the 
fruitful mother? 

3d JSurse. Well, sir, well ! [Exeunt Nurse with baby. 

Magog. glorious queen of Heaven, patroness of babies ! 

Justitia. If any any more toward, let them come ! Infi- 
nite room in the diamond opulent millennium ! 
Enter Tom Glory and his friends. 

Magog. How d'ye do, Tom Glory ! Lord Magog, though 
always a capital giant, was never so big, so tall, as you see 
him now ? 

Tom Glory. What has so suddenly increased your already 
extraordinary stature, my lord ? 

Magog. Three offshoots added to Magog in one day 1 
Isn't that a feat to brag of ? 

Tom Glory. I do envy you, my lord. 

Magog. Heaven might envy me the multiplication of that 



the world's captain. 103 

which is most flattering to me, future representatives, heirs 
to my substance. Champion, I forgive ye the beating you 
gave me ; I forgive everybody and ask everybody to forgive 
me. In particular, I beg Power's pardon. His raptured 
Queen, representing heaven, the blessed cause by prescrip- 
tion of all the exceeding fertility on the part of my lady. 

[Enter Gog and messenger bearing portraits. 

Gog. Capital ! capital ! capital 1 the millennium promises 
to be very populous ! Capital ! capital ! 

Magog. How now ? Gog's in great glory, at some flatter- 
ing intelligence. 

Gog. But is this no hoax ? 

Messenger. 'Tis truth, sincere as heaven's perfect face. 

Gog. Glorious news ! Stand aghast, Magog ! 

Magog. I never did, and never shall for thee. 

Gog. Go to ! I have beaten thee in the matter of 
babies. 

Magog. No, you haven't I My lady has just begotten me 
triumphant triplets. 

Gog. Look ! 

[Holds up four daguerreotypes of babies. 

Magog. My God ! Tt can't be true ! 

Gog. True as the sky 

That never failed yet toward the raptured earth, 
Upholding it perpetually. 

Justitia. "Well, gentlemen, let congratulations, like soft 
breezes of June, spread delight on all sides. Since you 
have emigrated to America, what are your highness' future 
intentions ? 

Ex-Emperor. At the sunshine aspect of thee, my humid 
misanthropy, like a cloud, having dried completely, I'm going 
to begin to be one of the imperial merchants. 



104 THE SOLDIER OF THE PEOPLE; OB, 

Justitia. O capital resolution ! 

Ex-Emperor. Ay, madam, and I promise myself great rev- 
enues from commercial pursuits. I thank General Power's 
expedition of Enlightened Law that liberated Europe. 

Justitia. France is come over to America, too, as I un- 
derstand 1 

Ex-Emperor. Ay, but Louis, execrating the Diamond 
Republic, is off for Great Bear Lake. 

[Enter Louis Napoleon and French emigrants. 

Louis Nap. No, on second thoughts, I'll remain and 
merge with the Enlightened, Raptured, Sovereign People, in 
the future. 

Citizens. Hurrah, Bonaparte ! 

Hercules Power. Enlightened Law swallows up individ- 
ual thrones, and substitutes unity and diamond perfection of 
the People, both individually sovereign, and harmoniously 
united. 

[Enter General Trump General Eagleson, and a de- 
tachment of the Army of the Sun, with Magnus 
Sham and Company, voluntary prisoners. 

Hercules Power. How now, General Trump, General 
Eagleson marching at head of the invulnerable Army of the 
Diamond Republic. 

Gen. Trump. Flying light artilleryman, Mr. Time, had 
prostrated all the Shams before our arrival. Truly, but for 
rapid revolution of Mr. Time's scythe, it had been vain pur- 
suit of phantom, going after Magnus Sham and Company. 

Justitia. Whom have you made voluntary prisoners, there ? 

Gen. Trump. May it please your enlightened Majesty, 
Magnus Sham and all the other Shams, who, having raptur- 
ously capitulated to Mr. Time, now express themselves ready 



the world's captain. 105 

to ratify their adhesion to the Diamond Republic of all 
America, and all the earth at America's raptured skirts. 

Justitia. Mr. Magnus Sham, their infinite gracious ma- 
jesties, the Sovereign Citizens hail you among them. 

Magnus Sham. Ay, madam ! Thanks to Mr. Time, I'm 
now a convert to Enlightenment and Enlightened Law and 
Government, otherwise the Kingdom of Heaven. 

[Enter young men of the innumerable Army of the 
Diamond Republic, carrying Old Time in their 
arms. 

1st Young man. here's the capital old fellow ! 

Old Time. I'm not old, I'm young with such a mighty off- 
spring round me. I've just begun. so many marriages, 
and no end to the births, rapture Time anew. Hurrah ! 

2c? Young man. He's done a good day's work, slaughtered 
all the Shams, and took Magnus prisoner. 

[Hereon enter President Diamond and other gentle- 
men. 

Pres. Diamond. Enlightenment ravishing unity of the 
People, of all the world, now quietly shelves the Shams in 
the museums. Take away Magnus and the other Shams to 
the museums. 

Magnus Sham. I beg of you, no ; before I'll be star- 
ed at, I'll drop Sham and join myself with the enlightened 
sovereigns 1 Gentlemen, I'm no more Magnus Sham, but 
Magnus Diamond ! Now it is future article of my faith, as it 
is yours, ' Death to all tyrants ! Hail all mankind as 
brothers ! Respect for popular rights by Enlightened Law ! 
All sovereigns alike in the Diamond Republic !' Hurrah ? 
trade and population ! Hurrah, marriages and endless rush 
of babies, of all bosom things, gratifying in present and future ! 



106 THE SOLDIER OP THE PEOPLE; OB, 

yes, I too do vote down all Shams, and take up like you 
with diamond-like Enlightenment and Enlightened Law. 

[Enter Raptured Mechanics and Glorified Laborers. 
Raptured Mechanics. Hurrah, Diamond Republic of trade 
and population. 

Glorified Laborers. Hurrah ! Marriages and endless rush 
of babies 1 

Rapt. Mechanics. Hurrah, God's free soil, rapturous open 
for the greatest number of sovereign settlers. 

[Enter Queens of the Diamond Republic, who favor 
the sovereigns in audience with a dance, and sub- 
sequently with a song, as follows : 

SONG. 

Dance ! Dance ! Dance ! 

Citizens 1 

Changed like enlightened denizens 

Of the rapturous heavens. 

Changed like enlightened citizens 
Of the heavens, 

Heavens, heavens, heavens I 

Dance ! Dance ! Dance ! 

Citizens ! 

Shining denizens 

Of magnet heavens ! 

The consummate diamond heavens ! 

Dance ! Dance ! Dance 1 

Glorious citizens, severally sovereigns ! 

The illustrious habitants of august heavens I 

[Re-enter Gog and Magog, and the Ex-Emperor, 
bearing banners respectively inscribed, Diamond 



the world's captain. 107 

Kepublic of trade and population, otherwise, United 
Brotherhood of all mankind. 

Gog. Hurrah, Diamond Republic of trade and popula- 
tion ! 

Magog. Hurrah, marriages and lots of ruby babies rush- 
ing up like mushrooms. 

Gen. Power. What, giants Gog and Magog enrolled in 
the Diamond Republic ! 

Magog. Ay, all anthropophagous things, without excep- 
tion, merged by enlightenment among the raptured united 
sovereign people. 

Gen. Power. Donald, ho ! What of the ladies mated to 
the likely young men ? 

Donald. A good account of children. 

Gen. Power. A fit item for the populous millennium. 
Call them, Donald ! 

Donald. Raptured Ladies, ho ! 

[Enter Scandal and troupe, severally linked to Like- 
ly Young Men, and surrounded by laughing and 
rollicking children. 

song — Duet. 
1. 
Donald. Welcome ! Welcome 1 

Even ye that once made 
Scandal's irreputed troupe. 

2. 
Scandal, SfC. Donald ! 

Now changed by Enlightenment 

Into fortune and content, 

Perfect like the diamond 1 

Donald ! Donald ! 



108 THE SOLDIER OF THE FEOPLE. 

3. 

Donald. W-elcome ! "Welcome ! 

With husbands severally; 
With prattling babies, too ! 

4. 

Scandal, SfC. Donald ! 

With plenty sovereign, 

Omnipresent love like heaven, 

Rendering our path even. 

Donald I Donald ! 



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